14th Amendment's 147th birthday

This extremely broadly-interpreted, Civil War-era, 14th Amendment has been interpreted to do everything from: conferring unspecified--often illusory--"rights of citizenship" on descendants of freed African slaves; to conferring Due Process and Equal Protection of Law protections to white citizens; to authorizing the "marriage" of LBGT (lesbian-gay) citizens, in all 50 states, most recently . One thing it has never done, as it was originally designed to do, is to witness the federal judicial enforcement of section 2 of its provisions, which punitively reduces Congressional representation in states that deny descendants of freedmen the equal right to vote!