SpidermanTuba
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i hate to be the one to break it to an eminent historian such as yourself, but there were only 37 states in 1868. if you take out all 11 confederate states, the amendment, much like yourself, fails.
I hate to be the one to break to to an eminent Constitutional law scholar such as yourself - but It doesn't matter. If you take the view that the 11 confederate states' ratifications didn't count, then the ratifications of the 13 states that were admitted later would have caused the amendment to be ratified.
There were only 13 states when the 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 - it was ratified in 1992 when at least 3/4's of the number of states at the time (38 of 50) had ratified the amendment.
except the 14th was ratified in 1868, justice frankfurter.
have an adult explain the difference to you.
Yes, but if you had bothered to read the thread, you'd know I was responding to JB's claim that it wasn't. You have trouble following things, don't you?
JB claims the 11 confederate states' ratifications were not valid, due to them being forced to ratify the 14th. My point was that even if the 14th was illegal due to this, by present day time, more than 3/4 of all the states - even discounting all the former confederate states - have ratified it.