I don't believe the 14th Amendment was interpreted faithfully by the courts in the years after its passage. The result that we're still dealing with today is a

I don't believe the 14th Amendment was interpreted faithfully by the courts in the years after its passage. The result that we're still dealing with today is a totally toothless jurisprudence of the amendment's Privileges and Immunities Clause, and more recently, logically strained attempts to remedy that by an expansive reading of the Equal Protection Clause.