[H.Akston]

The second step in the "ratification" process was bad enough, but the first was even more blatant. When the Yankee congress voted with a "2/3rds majority" to send this amendment to the states, no Southern state had suffrage in the Senate.

And of course Article V says "..No state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate".

[supercat]

And of course Article V says "..No state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate".

I believe three states have and continue to be deprived of representation in the Senate without their consent (any state which ratified the Seventeenth Amendment, and any state which joined after its ratification may be presumed to consent; IIRC three states have done neither).