saveliberty
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Funny, I don't see the word 'Civil War' in the amendment at all.
Are you hallucenating or what?
No, I am just aware of what debts they are referring to in the amendment. Try reading up on when this amendment passed and why. You could start by reading ALL five parts of that section. Number five gives this power to Congress exclusively, which flies in the face of liberal thought blogs that Obama can do anything.
5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
#5 Does not give Congress the right to ignore the previous 4 sections, it only gives them the power to enforce those sections.
BTW, so your interpertation of all Constitutional amendments is that they only [ertain to the time and circumstances in which they were written. That they become somehow obsolete without being repealed?
Please show me the amendment the repeals the 14th.
Show me in the Constitution where an amendment has to be repealed after its useful life. This one was specific to debts owed to soldiers and their widows for Civil War services. If it was as you say, modern soldiers could use it to demand payment from the government even during a shutdown.