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Definition of Reconstruction |
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Reconstruction
The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed. The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. Related Definitions: Act, After, Again, And, Being, Civil, Close, Constitutional, Constructing, Government, Had, National, Of, Or, Passed, Process, Secession, State, The, Their, To, War, Which |
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Reconstruction Quotations
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. James Madison Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. Giovanni Agnelli Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. Stephen Harper In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! Edmund Husserl If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. Talcott Parsons My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. Lech Walesa We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. Tahar Ben Jelloun Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls. Carly Simon I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. Kevin J. Anderson |
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Reconstruction Translations
reconstruction in French is reconstitution, reconstruction reconstruction in German is Wiederaufbau, Wiederaufbau, Umbau reconstruction in Italian is ricostruzione, rinnovo |
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