Once you’ve forfeited your representation, you, not surprisingly, don’t get to participate in future debates about when you get your representation back.
The fact that the South came to regret secession did not amount to a moral or legal obligation to readmit their representatives as soon as the last gunshot died away.
LOL! You're blatantly ignoring that the Union decided the South couldn't leave, so having never left, there was no forfeit of representation. You can't have it both ways.
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The fact that the South came to regret secession did not amount to a moral or legal obligation to readmit their representatives as soon as the last gunshot died away.
Firstly, to my knowledge, the South never regretted the attempt to exercise it's Constitutional rights. Secondly, the there was nothing legal about the acts of the Union.
BTW- the morality issue is irrelevant since the Constitution is a legal contract, not a moral one.
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The fact remains until and unless the people again understand what the Constitution is and what it can and can't do, we are all nothing more than 'artificial persons', forever separated from our natural aspect....the source of our inalienable rights.