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Yeah, the GOP is all about states' rights in overturning RvW.
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Originally posted by Not Me
It has been awhile since I studied this, but as I remember, it wasn't the 14th amendmen that was used to uphold Congress' right to legislate in the arena of civil rights; it was the interstate commerce clause. The 14th amendment was used in the badges of slavery-type cases if I am remembering correctly.
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Please review sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, and get back to me.* Or read Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (1966). You may be thinking of sections 1 and 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.
* You don't really have to get back to me. This was a figure of speech.
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