It’s all from the 14th. Read the Slaughterhouse Cases. The 14th contradicts the human rights acknowledged by the original Constitution. Therefore unless an alternative interpretation was found, it had to be thrown out. Creating this problem was deliberate - it allowed SCOTUS to rule that a human being could be considered a corporation granted limited privileges, rather than a soul with God-given rights.
That’s it - that’s the whole ball of wax. All the hell we have around us stems from that presumption. It turned the Constitution inside out in an open secret, and to this day people will argue with you if you point it out. Even when you can show that it explains everything. People fear this explanation, so they reject it. That’s why the Left isn’t stopped, and why they laugh.
So if we go down it won’t be because we were fooled by legal trickery. It will be because we didn’t have the moral it spiritual courage to face the real problem, and settled for distracting ourselves with irrelevancies.
This is untrue: the Constitution does not impose philosophy upon its amendments through its unamended form — to do this would mean that the ability to amend the Constitution (aside from the explicit barring on touching slavery for a certain time, and the implicit to alter the manner of amending it itself) was constrained, but this is not the case — aside from the parenthetical limits, there are no constraints on amendments.
Creating this problem was deliberate - it allowed SCOTUS to rule that a human being could be considered a corporation granted limited privileges, rather than a soul with God-given rights.
This is a big problem, within law it is philosophically a bigger problem than virtually all others — however, it ignores a very real problem: that the 14th Amendment is not legitimate. (Alt link/article) — if the legitimacy of the 14th Amendment were thrown out, then the much of the problem you cite is irrelevant as the Fed would have no legitimate authority imposing into rights/privileges. (The societal acceptance of the conflation of right and privilege is another, more difficult matter.)