Originalism 101
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The 14th Amendment, the Privileges or Immunities Clause
The 14th Amendment was intended to guarantee equality in rights of the newly freed people of African Americans. The current lash believes that the privileges or immunities clause only incorporates the Bill of Rights against the states. That can't be right because we need somehow to get equality in basic civil rights, contract, property, including gun rights and speech rights. "I think it's probably just an equality guarantee," he says.
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