reverdy johnson wrote the 14th amendment to the constitution.
reverdy johnson wrote the 14th amendment to the constitution.
who wrote the 14th amendment to the constitution?
reverdy johnson
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some constitutional originalists, notably raoul berger in his influential 1977 book "government by judiciary," make the case that "brown" cannot be defended by reference to the original understanding of the 14th amendment. they support this reading of the 14th amendment by noting that the civil rights act of 1875 did not ban segregated schools and that the same congress that passed the 14th amendment also voted to segregate schools in the district of columbia. other originalists, including michael w. mcconnell, a federal judge on the united states court of appeals for the tenth circuit, in his article "originalism and the desegregation decisions," argue that the radical reconstructionists who spearheaded the 14th amendment were in favor of desegregated southern schools. evidence supporting this interpretation of the 14th amendment has come from archived congressional records showing that proposals for federal legislation which would enforce school integration were debated in congress a few years following the amendment's ratification. in response to michael mcconnell's research, raoul berger argued that the congressmen and senators who were advocating in favor of school desegregation in the 1870s were trying to rewrite the 14th amendment (in order to make the 14th amendment fit their political agenda) and that the actual understanding of the 14th amendment from 1866 to 1868 (which is when the 14th amendment was actually passed and ratified) does, in fact, permit u.s. states to have segregated schools.
brown v. board of education