[Tree of Liberty]

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were agreed to under duress. Washington forced the South to agree to them in order to shorten reconstruction and allow the southern states back fully into a Union that the North asserts they never left.

Without that blackmail, there wouldn't have been the 3/4 of the states needed to enact the amendments.

[Texasforever]

Without that blackmail, there wouldn't have been the 3/4 of the states needed to enact the amendments.

I don't disagree but they are there and it will take a constitutional convention to get rid of them.