Good grief! Reconstruction is a whole other thread. Just 11 more years of punishment for the South........punishment for what they legally and constitutionally had the right to do.......secede.
yeah...that is one area of the Constitution that is, depending on who you ask, either lacking in clarity, or perfect as written.
I think either interpretation got a lot of men killed.
The Civil War happened when people stopped talking and being rational and starting acting emotionally. Both sides did it. It is happening again but it is no where near that level (yet).....