francoHFW
Diamond Member
Where have you been the last 55 years? All the conservatives and racists have been in the GOP since 1984 anyway.../----/ Yeah, rewrite the article so you can live with yourself. Democrats are racist to the core, wrote and enforced the Jim Crow laws and built the KKK to terrorize the freed slaves. You people are despicable./-----/ The 14th Amendment was written by radical LIBERALS who set out to alter fundamentally the relationship between the federal government and the states./-----/ The 14th Amendment was written by radical Republicans who set out to alter fundamentally the relationship between the federal government and the states by providing an enforceable federal "check" on the three branches of state government. The Privileges or Immunities Clause barred state laws that violated fundamental liberties either by discrimination or generally, the Due Process Clause mandated that these laws be applied to particular persons by reliable procedures, and the Equal Protection Clause mandated that state executive officials extend the protection of these laws to all persons. With that amendment's Enforcement Clause as their constitutional warrant, these same Republicans went on to enact civil rights acts every bit as radical as those enacted in the 1960s. Indeed, the laws would have been even more radical had they not been impeded by Democratic filibusters in the Senate and (as was then permitted) in the House. Confronting continued Southern resistance, the Republicans then secured the enactment of the 15th Amendment, which was designed to be the ultimate voting rights act aimed at racial discrimination. Conservatism and Civil RightsIdiot playing the old stupid republican / Democrat game again because he’s too embarrassed to admit CONSERVATIVES held up civil rights progress for years./----/ Argue with this: U.S. Senate: Civil Rights Filibuster EndedCellblockhead doesn’t have the integrity to admit is was liberals who fought for civil and women’s rights while conservatives were dead set against it.
History illiterate doesn’t know or want to admit the GOP is not the party of Lincoln anymore and used to be the liberals when the Dems were conservative.
All progress in the 20th century occurred because of liberals while conservatives fought them tooth and nail.