Again, how could they be readmitted to something that they were never out of to begin with? If you read the Reconstruction Acts you will see that what was being readmitted were their congressional representatives. There was never a vote, for example, admitting or readmitting Mississippi or Texas as a state. That would have been redundant.
So if your saying that they were states but did NOT have recognized representation for 7-8 years, and would NOT be recognized until they met certain criteria, they weren't really states now, were they?
BRAVO SIERRA. On 25 Jul 1868 the following became law after overriding Johnson's veto:
"Be it enacted, &c., That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State of the Union when the legislature of such State shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the 39th Congress, and known as article 14 [Amendment 14] ... and the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and admitted to representation upon this further fundamental condition: that the first and third subdivisions of section 17 of the fifth article of the constitution, of said State, except the proviso to the first subdivision, shall be null and void, and that the general assembly of said State, by solemn public act, shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing fundamental condition."Please enumerate the clause of the Constitution that allows the federal Congress - devoid of Southern voices - the right to force them to ratify an amendment. The states had already been readmitted after ratifying Amendment 13 - and per the Constitution - 'no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.' The federal legislative events after that were concocted by tryants.
Georgia legislators ratified the 13th, rejected the 14th, rejected the 14th again AFTER the law cited above, and then were FORCED to ratify Amendment 15 before 'readmission' ['That the [Georgia] legislature shall ratify the fifteenth amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States, before senators and representatives from Georgia are admitted to seats in Congress'].
Some folks just love living under dictatorial rule. </sarcasm>