14th Amendment

is a failure to blacks and resulted in segregated schools and derelict schools because racist white democrats wanted it that way.

The radical Republicans that wrote the 14th Amendment wrote the equal protection clause guaranteeing the equal protection of the law specifically to stop such abuses. John Bingham who largely wrote the clause said that he wanted the constitution to provide the same right for blacks to include 'full and equal rights of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property.' That obviously didn't happen. It didn't happen for the same reason that segregated schools for blacks were derelict. Racist white Democrats wanted it that way. That was then.

is an amendment which, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations.

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

is like an old lady's night skirt, it covers everything.

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14th amendment