[Restorer]

Unconstitutional amendment!

Now there's an oxymoron!

Although actually there were some amazing shenanigans performed to get it passed. They violated at minimum the spirit of the amendment process.

[maro]

Raoul Berger, once of Harvard Law School, has written a book detailing the strong arguments for why the Civil War amendments were invalidly passed. But I don't recommend you use it in court--some things are beyond argument by now.

[billbears]

amazing shenanigans

That's the understatement of the week. Kicking states out of the union that wanted to be out in the first place until they agree to the amendment and ignoring votes from other states that changed their mind after they saw what was being done to the South. Impeaching a President for not going along with the Radical Republicans. All that is just shenanigans? I'd call it throwing the Constitution to the wind