I want to be originalist to the original constitution. You know, the one that doesn't allow occupation armies to "vote" for the people of states, but one that lets the citizens of those states vote for themselves.
In such an originalist interpretation, the 14th amendment doesn't get ratified, because all the citizens of those occupied Southern states would not vote for a legislature that would ratify it.
Allowing the post civil war amendments to proceed as they did was a violation of the original intent of the US Constitution, which Ironically is the very thing they claimed to want to impose on those Southern states.
I guess violating the constitution is okay when they do it.
But the 14th amendment could have been written better, and much deliberate misunderstanding would have been avoided had they done so.
I’m still not interested in debating the Civil War.
I’ve seen you and the same 10 people go 10,000 posts deep and not get anywhere. Nah. That’s not for me.