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"All you have to do is look at the rise of Jim Crow and the ability of Southern state governments to segregate, to discriminate, to imprison without trial, to beat to death, to lynch — without anyone ever being brought to justice," he says. "It was only possible because the court had very slowly chipped away at [the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and the 14th Amendment]."
More proof, government doesn't create rights, they take them away. I wonder when the progressives from both parties will get it through their head that big government doesn't work?
The problem was that the US Supreme Court declared unconstitutional or rendered ineffective practically all of the statutes designed to implement the provisions of the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments on behalf of the individual American people they were designed to protect. This occurred over the course of several years following the American Civil War.
This is 1 of the reasons why I made the previous claim suggesting, "Let's face it squarely, essentially, Civil Rights for all American people was variously 'filibustered' for a century following the American Civil War."
Civil Rights for all Individual American people was 'filibustered' while the rights of the legal although fictive Corporate entities were, on the other hand, advocated:
"In 1886 it was clear that the Supreme Court had accepted the argument that corporations were people and that "their money was protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment"—an Amendment that was made to protect African Americans' rights." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
One of the earlier cases advocating on behalf of 'Corporate' persons:
10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People Last week's decision is the latest in a 200-year-long line of rulings giving businesses the same rights as humans.
Advocating for individual, live, & on behalf of all American people would not begin in earnest for almost a century.
Good info but you didn't go back far enough.
It starts and ends with the founders as well as we the people not holding them accountable. Wonderful philosophy, it's a shame too many were filthy hypocrites.
But inns, theaters, & other places of recreation are not, for the most part, public. They are private. That's the problem. The over reach into a private business bypasses the rights of the individual property owner.
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Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry
More proof, government doesn't create rights, they take them away. I wonder when the progressives from both parties will get it through their head that big government doesn't work?
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Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry
Good info but you didn't go back far enough.
It starts and ends with the founders as well as we the people not holding them accountable. Wonderful philosophy, it's a shame too many were filthy hypocrites.
Not sure how far you're asking to go back? Institutionalized enslavement was one of most hotly debated issues at the US Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Government overreach likely began there in the compromises made re: enslavement.
Compromises made overreached common sense observations, logic & reality when the compromises consisted of the act of owning people as property as a 'thing' to be considered as anything else but nonsensical.
Even a child, back then & in the present day, knows a person is not property & cannot be owned by another. People are valuable, it's not possible to put a price on a person's life.
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