Wrong. The 13th Amendment did not grant blacks citizenship. They might have been freed, but they were not citizens of the US. Refer back to the Natualization Acts enacted since the first federal congress. Black suffrage - if that were the intent of the 14th - was not enacted until 1870 by the 15th Amendment.
15 states refused to ratify the 14th Amendment. In response 28 Senators were unconstitutionally denied a seat in Congress. At which point Congress illegally overthrew the legimate, duly-elected republican governments of most of the Confederate states via the Reconstruction Acts (see their ratification of the 13th Amendment for proof of republican govenments). New military governments were instituted (another violation of the republican guarantee), and these puppet governments ratified the 14th.
The 14th also prevented (ex post facto) former Confederates the right of suffrage. So much for yankee visions of equality.
Wrong. The 13th Amendment did not grant blacks citizenship. They might have been freed, but they were not citizens of the US. Refer back to the Natualization Acts enacted since the first federal congress. Black suffrage - if that were the intent of the 14th - was not enacted until 1870 by the 15th Amendment.
15 states refused to ratify the 14th Amendment. In response 28 Senators were unconstitutionally denied a seat in Congress. At which point Congress illegally overthrew the legimate, duly-elected republican governments of most of the Confederate states via the Reconstruction Acts (see their ratification of the 13th Amendment for proof of republican govenments). New military governments were instituted (another violation of the republican guarantee), and these puppet governments ratified the 14th.
The 14th also prevented (ex post facto) former Confederates the right of suffrage. So much for yankee visions of equality.