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it was this kind of insolence on the part of ex-Confederates
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that in some ways began to stimulate
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what we will call Radical Reconstruction.
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Radical Reconstruction is a plan.
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And Foner's right on that.
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He said one of the reasons that this cadre
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of Republicans succeeded is because they really did have a plan.
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If there's a revolution going on
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and something's got to be redone about your country,
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go to the meeting with a plan.
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James Madison did that, by the way,
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at the original drafting of the Constitution,