Bottom Line Up Front: The 14th Amendment is a Leftwing cheat code designed to render the US Constitution incapable of stopping the unfettered growth of the federal government. That’s all. That is the entire reason it was added to the COTUS.
The Fourteenth Amendment began the same way as The Bill of Rights. It was a dope deal. It was everything that Congress was entirely too intelligent to pass after The Civil War plus an enforcement section that allowed for the formation of a Deep State to make sure the booger-snaffling morons wearing their Second Amendment Wife-Beaters could be properly coerced into greater and more discursive social participation. Since the Congress of Post-Bellum America wasn’t willing to adequately urinate on the recently-defeated Southern States, this was run through the amendment process to cut The Congress out of the loop.
The innocuous text reads as follows:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. H/T Encyclopedia Britannica
As Senator Fetterman ate through his straw and had his loyal staff dress him in cargo shorts and hoodies, he meditated deeply on the Caesar Word Salad above and reached a startling conclusion. “Power to enforce, by appropriate legislation…” = whatever the fvck we can ram down the other dude’s throat. If the wrong bunch of rednecks run The House of Representatives, they could want to limit the extent to which the federal government can pay off the strap-hangers that install evolutionary missing links like John Fetterman into US Senate seats. So he whips out the Fourteenth Amendment like a big, black Johnson.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law,….,shall not be questioned.
I read this proscriptively. In my hands, this means Wells Fargo can foreclose on your butt if you decide writing them mortgage checks offends a bunch of your feelz. To comprehend my interpretation of this particular Legal Latin, go on Netflix and watch the movie Repo Man. Debts are valid when they are coupled with a really nasty “or else.” Otherwise, you revert back to the old maxim that a man who owes Wells Fargo $100K may well have a problem. The man that owes Wells Fargo $2.75B has them by their nuts.
This painfully regressive idea that people who incur debts should curtail future debt binging until they improve their credit is counterproductive to bribing scumbags. This makes that retrograde thinking anathema to Senator Fetterman. He therefore, kindly reminds me that the true legal interpretation of The Fourteenth Amendment is “F*ck You, Whitey!”
Based on this deep and perspicacious legal interpretation from Senator Scumbag, we can extend without loss of generality. We extend whatever the heck Senator Scumbag wants, whenever and wherever he feels like extending it. The Fourteenth Amendment is democracy’s contribution to droit du seigneur. You literally have no rights that some hateful leftwing hack doesn’t personally permit you. Then again, you never truly have ever had rights you were not personally ready eat somebody else’s intestines in brutal personal combat in order to defend. The government leases you rights in return for submission. The Fourteenth Amendment just allows them to raise the rent whenever they feel like it. It formalizes your implicit submission to demotic and sclerotic democratic decline.
The Fourteenth Amendment puts into writing the malignant evil that has been embodied in every form of modern popular government. Nobody with an IQ greater than that of a rotifer would really give power to the people. Once you meet a bunch of them, your survival instincts prevent you from ever wanting most of the people to make important decisions that impacts your life. All “People Power” is just politics of who and whom. The Fourteenth Amendment just empowers our current elite to take it out on the Whoms in trade. Senator Fetterman gets that. He understands to your demise the true purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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