14th Amendment adopted

Thank you my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for reminding us that on July 28, 1868 following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, was officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of State William Seward issues a proclamation certifying the amendment.
It is noteworthy to me that democrat majority legislatures voted against ratification and in three cases renegged on ratification after they regained the majority in New Jersey, Ohio, and Oregon. Sadly those three states did not ratify that amendment until late in the 20th century or early in the 21st century. {Oregon re-ratified on April 25, 1973; Ohio re-ratified March 12, 2003; and New Jersey re-ratified April 23, 2003),

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It is past time to tell the truth and to reveal the real Democrat Party to the American people, from which, many millions of voters are either now walking away or who are seriously contemplating doing so. In reality, the Democrat Party has never been the political party of the people. In fact, the real history of the Democrat Party easily reveals that Democrat Party was and still is a cabal of social elitists that enslaved a whole race of innocent people, in the past, and is currently a political party that promises a Marxist future of equal poverty for all Americans that will enslave a whole nation.

Democrats are currently waging a social and political war against the US Constitution and the American free republic, through the slavery of Socialist-welfare programs. They know that the ultimate result of Democrats’ current ideas and platform will leave all Americans, from every race creed or ethnicity as vassals of entitlement programs that will rob the wealth, liberty, creativity, and futures of both rich and poor Americans. Democrats know that their programs will leave the whole of America enslaved to un-entitled benefits that were earned and funded by others and distributed to those who did nothing to merit receiving it.
This is why the Democrat Party is the Anti-US Constitution party. They know that there is no legal or political way their Socialist ideas can become law if the US Constitution remains the law of the land. Therefore, Democrats know that they have to relegate the constitution to the status of a relic in order to confiscate our guns, destroy our religious liberty and make us all totally dependent on the dystopian system that the Democrats envision for us all.

Did you know that the Democrat Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U S history?
Of course, as we know from history, it ultimately required a bloody civil war to end the diabolical system of savage human slavery in America. The War Between the States that divided brothers, sisters and parents was started and fought by the Democrats, when they unsuccessfully withdrew from our national union. The US President who fought to end slavery, and who thankfully won freedom for the slaves, was the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

Even at the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln, a Republican, had to fight, against the whole of the Democrat Party, to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed, which ended the evil institution of slavery, so the measure could be sent to the states, where it was forthwith ratified. Again, it was the Democrats that fought to keep America's malicious and immoral institution of human enslavement intact and in force.

Six days after the civil war ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, by John Wilkes Booth, who was a Democrat, who wanted to keep slavery alive and in force in the United States. After President Lincoln's assassination, his vice president, Andrew Johnson became president and vehemently opposed integrating former black slaves into the society that now declared them free. President Andrew Johnson was a Democrat.

The Democrat Party completely opposed to the 13th amendment, in 1865, that abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment, in 1866 that gave blacks citizenship, and the 15th Amendment that gave former slaves the right to vote. All of these amendments, to secure freedom for former black slaves, were passed only because of Republican support and demands for the rights of former slaves. After these amendments were passed, hundreds of former black slaves were elected to Southern State Legislatures, as Republicans, and up to 22 black Republicans were elected to congress, by 1900. There was not one black Democrat elected to the congress until as late as 1935.
The stakes in the upcoming election could not be higher. Republicans and Democrats have two very different directions that they want to take America, and America-loving people need to heed the dire warning of what the final outcome of the 2020 election will bode for future growth and prosperity or total ruin and destruction on the American constitutional republic. For Socialism, the Bastard Step-Child of Marxism, to take control of the nation, it must impoverish us all and make us totally dependent on the leviathan government.
We need to tell the truth, regardless of the ridicule, in spite of the onslaught of insults and even in the face of threats. There is no other way to awaken the nation that risks that Democrat Socialists pose on the very existence of the American Constitutional Republic. To fail to do so will undoubtedly cast the nation on the Democrat-Socialist ash-heap of history."
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Image: Ratification by the states of the 14th Amendment
Three northern states rescinded ratification after democrats retook the legislatures; New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon. Oregon re-ratified on April 25, 1973; Ohio re-ratified March 12, 2003; and New Jersey re-ratified April 23, 2003)

1. Background from {[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution]}
a. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress.
b. The Citizenship Clause overruled the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that black people were not citizens and could not become citizens, nor enjoy the benefits of citizenship.[11][12] Some members of Congress voted for the Fourteenth Amendment in order to eliminate doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866,[13][14][15] or to ensure that no subsequent Congress could later repeal or alter the main provisions of that Act.[16][17] The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had granted citizenship to all people born in the United States if they were not subject to a foreign power, and this clause of the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized this rule. According to Garrett Epps, professor of constitutional law at the University of Baltimore, "Only one group is not 'subject to the jurisdiction' [of the United States] – accredited foreign diplomats and their families, who can be expelled by the federal government but not arrested or tried."[12] The U.S. Supreme Court stated in Elk v. Wilkins (1884) with respect to the purpose of the Citizenship Clause and the words "persons born or naturalized in the United States" and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in this context.
c. The first 28 states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment were:[248]
The states that ratified the 14th amendment without rescinding it were all Republican majority states in the north and the
1. Connecticut: June 30, 1866
2. New Hampshire: July 6, 1866
3. Tennessee: July 18, 1866
4. Vermont: October 30, 1866
5. New York: January 10, 1867
6. Illinois: January 15, 1867
7. West Virginia: January 16, 1867
8. Michigan: January 16, 1867
9. Minnesota: January 16, 1867
10. Kansas: January 17, 1867
11. Maine: January 19, 1867
12. Nevada: January 22, 1867
13. Indiana: January 23, 1867
14. Missouri: January 25, 1867
15. Pennsylvania: February 6, 1867
16. Rhode Island: February 7, 1867
17. Wisconsin: February 13, 1867
18. Massachusetts: March 20, 1867
19. Nebraska: June 15, 1867
20. Iowa: March 16, 1868
21. Arkansas: April 6, 1868
22. Florida: June 9, 1868
23. North Carolina: July 4, 1868 (after rejection December 14, 1866)
24. Louisiana: July 9, 1868 (after rejection February 6, 1867)
25. South Carolina: July 9, 1868 (after rejection December 20, 1866)
26. Alabama: July 13, 1868
27. Georgia: July 21, 1868 (after rejection November 9, 1866)

Democrat majority states which ratified and then renegged on their raitification until the latter 20th o2 21st centuries.
28. New Jersey: September 11, 1866 (rescinded ratification February 20, 1868/March 24, 1868; re-ratified April 23, 2003)
29. Oregon: September 19, 1866 (rescinded ratification October 16, 1868; re-ratified April 25, 1973)
30. Ohio: January 11, 1867 (rescinded ratification January 13, 1868; re-ratified March 12, 2003)


If rescission by Ohio and New Jersey were illegitimate, South Carolina would have been the 28th state to ratify the amendment, enough for the amendment to be a part of the Constitution. Otherwise, only 26 states ratified the amendment out of the needed 28. Ohio and New Jersey's rescissions (which occurred after Democrats retook the states legislature) caused significant controversy and debate, but as this controversy occurred ratification by other states continued:

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that if withdrawals of ratification by New Jersey and Ohio were illegitimate, then the amendment had become part of the Constitution on July 9, 1868, with ratification by South Carolina as the 28th state.[249] The following day, Congress declared New Jersey's recession of the amendment "scandalous", rejected the act and then adopted and transmitted to the Department of State a concurrent resolution declaring the Fourteenth Amendment to be a part of the Constitution and directing the Secretary of State to promulgate it as such, thereby establishing a precedent that a state cannot rescind a ratification.[250] Ultimately, New Jersey and Ohio were named in the congressional resolution as having ratified the amendment, as well as Alabama, making 29 states in total.[251][252]

And was passed by Republicans.

The citizens of Oregon were very sadly misguided. I was 12 when they rectified the mistake.