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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Confederates were barred from holding office - yes or no.

No.

Alexander Stephens held the same seat in Congress after the war that he had held before the war.

You knew that was a lie when you wrote it.

Walt

22 posted on 03/20/2004 10:05:15 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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To: WhiskeyPapa
NO. ... You knew that was a lie when you wrote it.

US Constitution, Amendment XIV § 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

You knew that was a lie when you wrote it.

24 posted on 03/20/2004 8:04:43 PM PST by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
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