Major Supreme Court cases for the new term

AP via Breitbart ^ | October 4, 2009 | Staff

[missanne]

I love your tagline too!

[William Tell]

bvw said: "The 14th causes problems because it was trying to fix something that was NOT broken in the original charter, ..."

The nearly fatal flaw in the U.S. Constitution was the compromise that permitted the continuation of the enslavement of some people by other people. I believe that our Founders knew that they were simply "kicking the can down the road" as far as addressing the slavery problem.

I would bet that many of our Founders would not have been surprised to learn that the U.S. was to be engaged in a Civil War costing half a million lives less than a century after the nation's founding. It was expedient to form a union of thirteen rather than two unions of smaller size, but the result was forseeable.

Having grown into adulthood during the time when "separate but equal" was being clearly demonstrated to be "unequal", I think the Fourteenth Amendment was a necessary attempt to stop de facto enslavement AFTER the Civil War.

[vox_freedom]

Thanks missanne. :-)