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This section seems to forbid reparations, doesn't it?

Correct. To allow federal reparations, the 14th Amendment would have to be repealed or modified.

They brought this crap on themselves then talking about using the 14th to ignore the debt ceiling.

53 posted on 05/19/2023 5:46:20 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)

entropy12: This section seems to forbid reparations, doesn't it?

ro_dreaming: Correct. To allow federal reparations, the 14th Amendment would have to be repealed or modified.

Not just federal reparations -- state reparations are also prohibited:

"But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay... any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."

I'm not a lawyer, but I would guess that this applies to cities and counties as well (since they don't have any semblance of separate sovereignty under our system, unlike the states and the Federal government).