To: edsheppa
But it wasn't till about the 1920's that the courts started interpreting the 14th that way. Prior to then, they had explicitly rejected such an interpretation.
14 posted on
05/05/2002 6:18:48 PM PDT by
inquest
To: inquest
Not so. You may find
this interesting. Scroll down a page or so. Just a guess on my part but I bet this doctrine had basis in law before 1897.
15 posted on
05/05/2002 6:28:29 PM PDT by
edsheppa
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