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What do the scholars think? Does the application of the 14 Amendment need a legal charge or conviction to be enforced? The case is coming in front of a court this Friday. I wonder what the judge is thinking?
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Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Talk about a run on sentence. “….except for participation in rebellion, or other crime………”
Does “rebellion“ stand alone or is it grouped in with “other crime,” as in there needs to be a legal charge?
Here are two links relative to my post:
U.S. Constitution - Fourteenth Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
constitution.congress.gov
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Talk about a run on sentence. “….except for participation in rebellion, or other crime………”
Does “rebellion“ stand alone or is it grouped in with “other crime,” as in there needs to be a legal charge?
Could the 14th Amendment boot Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress?
Lawyers say one specific clause disqualifies sedition-abetting lawmakers like MTG and Madison Cawthorn from holding office.
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