Civil Rights & Constitution
Is the Third Time the Charm? Reconstructing Personhood and Reimagining “We the People”
Professor Crooms-Robinson examines the original intent of who “we the people” included and who it excluded, namely enslaved blacks. She looks to historic cases like Scott v. Sandford to show that people of African descent were not intended to be considered part of the “we” but were continually disenfranchised to remain “they.”