Time: Tue Apr 15 09:18:23 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23124; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:52:28 -0700 (MST) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24867; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:52:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:56:06 -0700 To: GkLtft@aol.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Re: [LEADERS] SLS: 14th amendment [sic] Your best best would be to begin understanding the historical details first, by reading Dyett v. Turner. Then, jump to State v. Phillips, and all the historical works cited in both of those cases. The two law journals go into President Johnson's blistering veto message against the Reconstruction Acts, which ordered the President to send troops back into the South. Then you will appreciate that Congress was dying to have its own herd of subjects, and they worded the 14th amendment proposal so as to elevate the 1866 Civil Rights to the level of a constitutional authority. However, as the Dyett case shows, in excruciating detail, the Union states rejected the plan outright. That rejection was what motivated Congress to retaliate, in the way they did (putting troops BACK in 10 of the 11 southern states which had joined the Confederacy). The ONLY state which was spared that invasion was the one state which had voted to ratify the 14th amendment proposal. There are much simpler ways to word the 14th, so as to include blacks in the sovereign class of state Citizens to which Dred Scott was denied access. Congress chose deception instead. Sound familiar? /s/ Paul Mitchell At 09:56 PM 4/14/97 -0400, you wrote: >All, > > The point about the 14th amendment not having the goal of a color blind >society has merit but I do not see the connection to the ratification of the >amendment. > > >gail lightfoot > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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