[litany_of_lies]

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?

[tpaine]

The 14th well may be the amendment that saves our 2nd amendment rights.

The Feds hold that the RKBA can be 'regulated'. Ashcrofts recent decision claims that ALL existing fed gun laws perfectly conform to the 2nd.
The administration also agrees that states, like CA, can 'regulate' as much as they like.

Ashcroft & the feds are against the USSC hearing the new 'Emerson' case, for fear that the 2nd amendment will be 'incorporated' as an individual right, as written, thus invalidating most existing federal & state gun law infringements. -- They lobby for 'business as usual' on gun rights.

THe 14th is not an 'evil' amendment. - This view is simple propoganda by 'states rights' movements, working to undermine respect for constitutional principles on individual liberty.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

No one alive today did a d*** thing to harm the South.

If the reverend Jesse is not enough for you, Mr. B.C. sure gave the south a bad name.  Not to mention Jimmy C.