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A civil war was fought and lost by a side who pretty much treated the principles of the Declaration of Independence like dirt for decades. So count the afterma
by butlerm 4y ago
A civil war was fought and lost by a side who pretty much treated the principles of the Declaration of Independence like dirt for decades. So count the aftermath of the Civil War as the Second Founding, the amendments made that fulfilled the promise made in the First.
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- bcrosby95 4y agoI can't imagine how anyone could actually believe this if they were aware of the 100 years of history following the civil war.
- butlerm 4y agoI don't imagine that constitutional amendments are fully implemented with immediate effect in areas that are congenitally hostile to them is why. It is not exactly news that the South did everything they could to resist the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments for over a century. They still failed - and why did they fail? Because those amendments were eventually used in a renewed federal effort to bring the South into the compliance with their most basic standards, an effort that was put on hold for decades. You can't expect history to happen overnight, sometimes it takes time.