Yeah I figured you would mention 1865.
1865 did not change the wording or meaning of the Constitution.
Can we trade you to Mexico for a couple illegals?
The words didn’t change in 1865 but the way the county has been and will run certainly has if you can’t see or accept that is on you. Please enlighten the class how we are still a limited republic? Also expand on the 10th amendment which last anyone checked is a dead letter rule has any case in modern history sent to the Fed’s ended up with the supremacy clause or the commerce clause being limited let alone over turned name one please. Lincoln was wrong he should have let the southern states go and then tried to convince them it was in their best interest to come back. Not fight a war of aggression that subsequently empowered the Fed’s to run all over the state’s. Like I said the state’s are addicted to Federal money none are going to give it up not a one. The income tax was the beginning of the end for the republic once the state’s lost the ability to keep revenue inside their borders the dice were cast. The 17th was another nail in the coffin the direct election of the state’s primary representatives has and always will be a disaster for state’s.