Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
14th Amendment Nullified in 1872!
Did not realize that the famous 14th Amendment whose 150th anniversary is this year and month had been so severely limited by law in 1872 during the administration of General Ulysses S. Grant. This set the stage for 1876!
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Amnesty Act - Wikipedia
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law which reversed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the Act removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_Act