Me either. I know that John Jay's Court had forced reconsideration, but the Court never did invalidate the treaty.
I shouldn’t have said case closed, cause with the way judges are, even the words of the Constitution mean nothing. For that matter, same with Congress and this President, and all Presidents going back decades.
Sadly true. If you liked the article, you might enjoy this one on Kelo.
Another well done article. The sad thing is, much of the harm that slavery and Jim Crow did this country continue still - they truly are the reason for much of the overbearing nature of this out of control snowball - and I’m NOT talking about race. You summed it up well here:
“But, but, but… there had been the injustice of slavery under the old system and afterward with Jim Crow laws in the reconstructed South! So, what was so bad about equal protection? Well, it goes back to that the tension that existed at the very founding of this country: Powers sufficient to reverse historic injustices can have their perverse consequences when directed to unjust purposes…”