[tpaine]

Your constant reposting of a link to the 'Squalid 14th' thread proves only one thing, akston. -- You are far gone into some sort of dementia where that thread was a triumph for you.

- It wasn't. Anyone can read it, and see that your position on the 14th was destroyed.

It's a great amendment, and could be acknowledged as the greatest if, -- as I suspect, -- it will someday be quoted by the USSC as our only protection from states over-regulating the right to bear arms.

[H.Akston]

I am no fan of central government. OR state government. -- They BOTH must obey our constitution.

It's [the 14th] a great amendment, and could be acknowledged as the greatest if, -- as I suspect,

But Congress violated the Constitution's Article V, in order to shove the 14th Amendment into the Constitution. You can't say that the Central Government MUST obey the Constitution, AND think that the 14th Amendment is "great". Unless of course, you're a hypocrit.

I just love this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38ae1fc86628.htm

[H.Akston]

- It wasn't. Anyone can read it, and see that your position on the 14th was destroyed.

It sure doesn't look that way to me. It looks like I made a lot of good points that were agreed with, and never refuted.

That article is more important than what I said about the 14th, though.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38ae1fc86628.htm

"...We return to 1865. As the legally reconstituted Southern states were busy ratifying the anti-slavery Thirteenth Amendment, the Republican-dominated Congress refused to seat Southern representatives and Senators. This allowed the remaining, rump Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment, consistent with Article V's requirement of a 2/3 majority for sending a proposed amendment to the states. Never mind that Congress also clearly violated that Article's provision that "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

The only thing being destroyed, is your argument against me, and the Constitution's Article V by the RADICAL republicans.

Though the Northern states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, it was decisively rejected by the Southern and border states, failing to secure the 3/4 of the states necessary for ratification under Article V. The Radical Republicans responded with the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which virtually expelled the Southern states from the Union and placed them under martial law...."

and all this was well after Lee's surrender. There was no "rebellion" or Constitutional excuse for this tyranny.