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Of course you wouldn't. The 14th Amendment was written SPECIFICALLY to punish Southerners. Since the North could find no law or Constitutional provision that they could enforce, they simply made up one and then when the South wouldn't play along in their own persecution, the North simply used force to accomplish their means. After all they had gotten so good and forcing their will on the South in the past 15 years or so.

BTW, do you not understand the term "under duress"? Do you not understand that it is one of the basic tenements of freedom that no vote or admission or confession is valid if it is done under duress? If you can't understand that, then you are in the wrong forum.

I understand what "under duress" means. And I understand that it was vengefully enacted to be rough on the South, but has turned out to be generally useful. And I understand that a truly honest judge would rule it null and void even today, but that it will never happen.

We're going back 135 years and trying to undo something that, for better or worse, has become settled law. So either bring a court action for nullification or work on a constitutional memo to repeal it already.

No one alive today did a d*** thing to harm the South. If you want to take it out on somebody, start digging up graves in the Midwest and thrash the skeletons.

Or do you want to go for Reconstruction reparations in stereo with the slavery reparations movement?