Also over at Balkinization, Mark Graber wonders where the Civil War went…

From 1861 to 1865, the United States fought a civil war.  The outcome of the war were three constitutional amendments, military rule in the south, and numerous federal laws minutely regulating political procedures in the former confederate states.  The constitutional significance of the Civil War and Reconstruction remains a source of political and scholarly debate, but no one denies that something of great constitutional importance happened during the 1860s.  Until today.

More here.