[calmike]

Amendment 14 shows the danger of a written Constitution. When a mistake is made in the wording, it is almost impossible to correct.

[shibumi]

"Amendment 14 shows the danger of a written Constitution. When a mistake is made in the wording, it is almost impossible to correct."

So, you would prefer the ephemeral, intuitive, virtual sort of constitution that emanates rights and duties every time a Supreme Court Justice has an episode of senile dementia?

(Not that we don't already have something approaching that.)

[Doe Eyes]

Amendment 14 shows the danger of a written Constitution. When a mistake is made in the wording, it is almost impossible to correct.

There was no wording problem. Many states denied citizenship to children born in American to slave parents who were not citizens. The Constitution was amended to prevent this abuse.

On January 16, 1919 the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the the United States was ratified having been approved by 36 states.

On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.