Amnesty Act of 1872 undid the “insurrection” clause of Amendment 14.
An interpretation? Assumed to have? Or has it ever been tested/adjusted one way or another?
good point...it is Congress acting as it is allowed to do and indeed is required to do under the text of the amendment.
but it doesn’t undo the basic written idea that as a matter of foundational constitutional law, “insurrectionists” can’t serve in those offices.
but Congress has to set forth the whys and hows of that....if they don’t, then....functionally this idea is dead.