We are all created equal.
The amendment passed.
Get over it.
That the South lost does not change the irregularities in the 14th Amendment, which would never have been proposed had Lincoln lived to rein in the fanaticism of the Reconstructionists.
The late David Lawrence, who was the publisher of U.S. News for many years, considered the "14th Amendment" to be the greatest Constitutional wrong in American History. Your breezy response to this thread, neither answers the Perez argument, nor Lawrence's argrument, which was shared by many legal scholars in the era since. Some of this is referred to in an article on Conservative Pot-Pourri.
The statement that we are all created equal, that you offer, is of course a quotation from Jefferson, used in the Declaration of Independence to deny the divine right of Kings. It is hardly an endorsement for the corruption of legal procedures.
It is very important that only the highest standards be applied to matters that effect the integrity of our written Constitution. Otherwise, it is easily reduced to the nullity that the Left has been seeking for a long time. A full and frank debate on the 14th Amendment--the basic cover for all of the excesses of the activist Supreme Court in the 20th Century, including many regularly denounced at this venue--is long overdue. [It is the l4th Amendment that made possible the legalization of Abortion and the illegalization of school prayer. It is the 14th Amendment that enabled the Federal Courts to take over Legislative aportionment and order school bussing. It is the 14th Amendment that has shifted the balance against Law enforcement; that compounds the problem with illegal immigration, by giving the children, born here to illegal immigrants, automatic citizenship, etc., etc.. Its effect has been an ongoing disaster.]
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