Oh, I am absolutely aware of efforts to get around the 13th and 14th amendments, but if the Civil War had come to the same conclusion, the Emancipation Proclamation still issued by Lincoln but the 13th amendment not passed and ratified none of those things would have occurred because those people would still be slaves. The federal govern…
Oh, I am absolutely aware of efforts to get around the 13th and 14th amendments, but if the Civil War had come to the same conclusion, the Emancipation Proclamation still issued by Lincoln but the 13th amendment not passed and ratified none of those things would have occurred because those people would still be slaves. The federal government is only allowed to intervene in a state's sovereignty if there is violation of a constitutional right. The Emancipation Proclamation would eventually be overturned by federal courts and slavery would have persisted in those states that chose it. The Union's position was unconstitutional and Lincoln knew it.
Oh, I am absolutely aware of efforts to get around the 13th and 14th amendments, but if the Civil War had come to the same conclusion, the Emancipation Proclamation still issued by Lincoln but the 13th amendment not passed and ratified none of those things would have occurred because those people would still be slaves. The federal government is only allowed to intervene in a state's sovereignty if there is violation of a constitutional right. The Emancipation Proclamation would eventually be overturned by federal courts and slavery would have persisted in those states that chose it. The Union's position was unconstitutional and Lincoln knew it.