To: Non-Sequitur; 4ConservativeJustices
[4CJ]
Article V - [N]o State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. [non-seq] If they are expelled then they are no longer a state, are they?
Clearly the states of the Confederacy were out of the Union while the Radical Republicans prohibited their senators from being seated.
We have a precedent for kicking Massachusetts out.
To: rustbucket
Whether or not the CSA states were in or out of the Union was a matter of convenience for the RR's. There was no coherent policy either way; in to justify the invasion, out to force passage of the 14th, in/out/in/out.
It's one of the great hypocracies of the war and reconstruction.
742 posted on
03/12/2004 9:00:09 AM PST by
Gianni
(Sarcasm, the other white meat.)
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