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My point isn't that the 14th's Section 1 doesn't have enough words. My point is that it has just enough words we'd expect, but the CRA of 1866 has too many words (not for my tastes, but what we would expect compared to earlier amendments).

If the 14th Amend Sec 1 was written for my tastes, I'd prefer it to look more like the 1866 CRA. Likewise if it was written in today's time in which every jot and tittle is challenged or stretched routinely by the left. But I'm not going to today criticize the 19th century writer (John Bingham) for using the normal amount of words for his time for 14th Am Sec 1.

77 posted on 04/06/2026 10:38:40 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

Just that first part of the first section could have been left the same, and the thing would have worked as well.

And then we wouldn't be having all the loony Federal Judges hanging crap on it like a Christmas tree.

"Anchor babies"? Wouldn't have happened had they just left the original section 1 in it.