James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, tweeted that today is the anniversary of the certification of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
https://twitter.com/JimGrossmanAHA/status/1420396715723603972
On this date in 1868 Secretary if State William Seward officially certified the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Every American should read this text today. #EverythinghasaHistory constitutioncenter.org/interactive-co…
He suggests that today would be a good day to read the 14th Amendment, which guarantees full citizenship to all citizens born or naturalized in the United States.
In particular, read Section 2:
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
If the Supreme Court rereads Section 2, it will strike down any state laws that abridge the right to vote, especially when those laws were designed to suppress the Black vote.
Much has changed since the 14th Amendment was written. Women and Indians have the right to vote, and the voting age has been lowered to 18.
But what has not changed is that it is unconstitutional to abridge the right to vote.
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White supremacy, especially xenophobia, prevented California from ratifying the 14th Amendment until 1959, more than 90 years late. Searching the web, yet again, just now, for clues as to why and how that happened, I found a bunch of crazy sites claiming that the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional, which I find tragic yet hilarious because they’re saying the Constitution is unconstitutional. I suppose the Ten Commandments are blasphemy? Ha. (Pause.) Ha. States in the South had to be occupied by the military to compel them to ratify. Some states in the North tried to rescind their ratification.
This is a racist country in 2021, from sea to shining sea. We are not a collection of red states and blue states; we are the United by fear and anger States of America. The Constitution is being ignored by states and dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court. No forward steps are taken toward justice and equality without great struggle. Many of us don’t have the spine for it, and/because most of us are hiding with NIMBY skeletons in closets.
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It didn’t apply to the 14th amendment but it is interesting to note that to this day, there remains one potential amendment to the Constitution that would indeed be unconstitutional.
From Constitution:
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Amendments …shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”
So, any proposed amendment that gave larger states more Senators than smaller states would be unconstitutional unless it had the consent of all the smaller states (which, it is safe to say, would never happen.)
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“Election administration in the U.S. is largely decentralized. Administrators at the state and local level are responsible for running elections, from maintaining voter registration records to counting ballots. As a result, election laws and procedures vary widely among states and localities.”
Elections in the US are managed by the states. The red states are claiming that they are not suppressing the vote. They are already claiming that they are ensuring the security of the electoral process.
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“Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. “While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions.”
So he is not saying that the Federal Government does not have the right to supervise elections, Rather he is saying it is no longer needed.
Congress can decide otherwise.
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I read, I think from Foner, The Second Founding that after the ratification of the 14th ammendment, the supreme court almost immediately began debating whether corporations deserved equal treatment under the law and gradually undermined the 13th, 14th, and 15th ammendments.
Also interestingly, in Gore v. Bush the supreme court stopped the recount based on the “equal protection clause” of the 14th ammendment.
Congress and the supreme court have usually served the masters that put them there. Or as John Jay said, “the people who own the country ought to govern it.”
And so they do.
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