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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 24 07:11:46 2019, in response to Re: Supreme Court appears likely to allow Trump Administration census rigging plan, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Apr 24 07:02:15 2019. Are you absolutely sure the three-fifths compromise wouldn't have found new life in the same way barriers to Black voting in Southern states were erected under Jim Crow?Do you even know what the three-fifths compromise was and to whom it was detrimental? You're also contradicting yourself. If your claim was that the three-fifths compromise died due to the "living Constitution" model and its re-interpretation, why didn't it "[find] new life" during the Jim Crow era? A lot of flagrantly unconstitutional things went on in the former Confederacy between Reconstruction and the 1960s. Active interpretation of the (living) Constitution by SCOTUS helped end all that. You have it backwards. If those things you claim1 happened during the Jim Crow era were "flagrantly unconstitutional," then wouldn't that show that your "living Constitution" model is bullshit and that the Supreme Court beginning in the 1960s finally interpreted the Constitution as written and got rid of all of "flagrantly unconstitutional" things? If the constitution were subject to continual reïnterpretation, then all of those things would have been Constitutional at the time until reïnterpreted out. 1I'm not going to dumb this down. |
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