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What if the Republicans, arguing that the main failure of the 1787 Constitution was the fact it didn't prevent the civil war, decided to call a Second Constitutional Convention after the US Civil War to create a new constitution? What would said constitution look like? Would it feature any major changes to the political system of the US and if so, what major changes would it contain? Would Reconstruction be more successful with a new constitution or not?
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