A mindblowing report from the 60s on how the 14th amendment was never legally ratified
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @LibertasBR 17 Aug
So it was a republican coup based on the cohesion of the northern states against the confederates?
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18 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux OP 17 Aug
Idk, but afaik the 14th birthed the US citizen category, wich is practically a free range slave. The original constitution at least had some safeguards against authoritarianism. US citizens have the right to not be deported, practically
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 6h
As @DarthCoin said here, they were indeed free until the enactment of the constitution.
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