Looks official to me <sarcasm>.
You are going to believe what you want. Like all libtards. As ANYONE should know amendments to the constitution must be ratified by 3/4ths of the states. that never happened
The states were quite a bit smaller then as we were still trying to figure out what to do with the defeated asswipes of the South, who had no say in that matter or any other since they surrendered...
Yawn. Wrong as usual OH and not only did the no southern state ratify it 6 other yankee states did not either.
Looks official to me <sarcasm>.
You are going to believe what you want. Like all libtards. As ANYONE should know amendments to the constitution must be ratified by 3/4ths of the states. that never happened
The constitution is on my side in this (and all) matters. Good luck with Trump as your new idol.
Really? when did the constitution change to not needing 3/4ths of the states to ratify an amendment? I missed that one
Just curious. In 1867 there were 37 states. Ten Southern States rejected the initial ratification of the 14th Amendment but they were not yet re assimilated back into the Union. Right? That means, in reality, the Union consisted of only 27 States. 3/4th of that comes out to around 20.25...round it down to 20 state needed to ratify.
Subtracting the 6 Union States that did not ratify from 27 and we have 21 states that ratified. 1 more than enough to make the ratification of the amendment legal.
THE SOUTH DID RATIFY THE 14th Amendment, under coercion but it was done.
IMHO,the defeated confederacy should have had no part in ratifying the 14th Amendment. I am not alone in that summation. The victorious Union Republican congress placed an important condition on the 10 Southern state hold outs: they could not regain congressional representation without ratifying the 14th Amendment.