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DiogenesLamp quoting: "If elections are conducted outside of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the government.
Such elections are unlawful, and their results are illegitimate.”
— Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, writing for the Wisconsin Supreme Court..."

If people declare themselves to be non-citizens and then fight the bloodiest war in our history just to prove how non-citizens they are, they cannot expect to be immediately re-enfranchised once they put down their weapons and stop killing their fellow citizens.

In the meantime, those previously unjustly subjugated, now newly enfranchised, who vote to ratify certain amendments codifying their newly won freedoms -- they can justly enjoy their moment of victory.

That's what happened.

If people declare themselves to be non-citizens and then fight the bloodiest war in our history just to prove how non-citizens they are, they cannot expect to be immediately re-enfranchised once they put down their weapons and stop killing their fellow citizens.

Black men between the ages of 14-45 commit about 40% of the total violent crime in this nation.

Must we conclude that all black people are criminals and have committed crimes because some did?

So you have a collection of people. Do you judge them *ALL* guilty of crime, and suspend *ALL* their rights? Or do you weigh each one individually in what we call "due process"?