To: tpaine
The 14th was written, in part, to insure the individual rights of exslaves from state infringments.. That's all well and good. That is why I couched my statement by saying 'in the literal sense.' My point being that black mens' rights were already covered by the Constitution, State's rights notwithstanding, if it had been interpreted without prejucice. It was the stubborn misinterpretation of State's rights that forced the artifice of the 14th Amendment to be necessary.
229 posted on
01/30/2004 8:36:15 PM PST by
TigersEye
(Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!)
To: TigersEye
Why do you call the 14th an artifice?
243 posted on
01/30/2004 8:47:08 PM PST by
tpaine
(I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but the U.S. Constitution defines a conservative. (writer 33
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