Minor v. Happersett
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The Court's Pretending That the Civil War Never Happened, Right?
The court discusses the penalty clause, which is in the fourteenth amendment. It says that if you deny voting rights to any male inhabitants of a state, then your representation in congress is reduced proportionately. But we are a hundred and 50 years later, and the penalty clause has never been enforced. What does it mean that there is an unenforced remedy for the denial of the vote in the constitution, yet states are still denying the vote? Next week, premium episode, catangi brown jackson will begin her first term on the supreme court.
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