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The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.
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The main way in which the organization of the US government reflect the ideas of Enlightenment philosopher Baron de Montesquieu is that it operates solely on the principle of popular sovereignty--meaning that people elect other people to make choices for them. The state serves them, not the other way around.
The weight it either has on the inside or outside it all depends