Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

That was their vision.

And so when we got into the challenges that were really trying to strip that away, Congress created the 14th Amendment, which was to guarantee what the Declaration said and put it into the framing of the Constitution under the Bill of Rights.

And the courts then ruled that essentially, Anything that was specifically federal, the states would have to respect.

Anything that was natural law, like your rights coming from the creator, would not have any political or legal weight.

In contrast, the American Supreme Court and various American state courts have shut the door to this completely.

All the way back in 1997, the Supreme Court unanimously, 9-0, rejected the argument that the 14th Amendment requires legalizing euthanasia in two cases that it decided at the same time.

The first one was called Washington v. Glucksberg, and the second one was called Vacco v. Quill.

And if anything, the courts become more, quote unquote, conservative since that time.

Let's take a look at this.

It's the 10th Amendment, and it basically says here, says the primary constitutional amendment that reserves power to the states is the 10th Amendment ratified in 1791, while amendments like the 17th Amendment and 14th Amendment have shifted or limited state power relative to the federal union.

Why I'm bringing this up is because this is how I think it's going to be divided.

This is how I think that people are going to choose sides.

In contrast, the American Supreme Court and various American state courts have shut the door to this completely.

All the way back in 1997, the Supreme Court unanimously, 9-0, rejected the argument that the 14th Amendment requires legalizing euthanasia in two cases that it decided at the same time.

The first one was called Washington v. Glucksberg, and the second one was called Vacco v. Quill.

And if anything, the courts become more, quote unquote, conservative since that time.

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution mandates a census be conducted every 10 years, primarily to determine how to apportion seats in the House of Representatives.

The 14th Amendment specifically requires that representation be based on the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.

That means everyone.

But in September, the Trump administration proposed removing non-citizens without a green card from being included in the results.

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Mita, I'm going to start with you.

As I said, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that congressional apportionment be based on the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.

And that is because prior to the end of the Civil War, enslaved people— counted as three-fifths of a person, although the intention at the time was very specific.

The states have kind of picked up the mantle.

I think most people forget the 14th Amendment, which says a person shall not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

Since an abortion, by definition, takes a human being, granted an unborn human being, and deprives them of their life forever.

We have the question of personhood.

lot of people that have this sort of misconception of American politics, that there's a great debate and both political parties can come together and solve all the issues and sort of not understanding that the greatest moments of change in America were largely dominated by one political party.

Like it wasn't, you know, we romanticize it now, but it wasn't like, you know, two political parties that ended the Civil War and like, you know, passed the 14th Amendment.

It was Lincoln.

They bribed the shit out of a lot of corrupt Democrats to get there, but it was the Republican Party that did that.

Reform after reform after reform.

Reconstruction, the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, 1964, 1965, 1968. a black family in the White House, and not one reckoning in the whole pile of bullshit.

And a reform that is not a reckoning is exactly what my framework already named it to be.

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