no this is great because if original popular sovereignty is the basis of legitimacy then she’s definitely endorsing the idea that the united states itself is completely illegitimate. the constitution was imposed on the american people without the support of the necessary supermajority of those same people, since a supermajority of them were explicitly denied enfranchisement by that very constitution.
Not shown in your screenshot, but actually present on the original version of the page being quoted, is a footnote that referenced 14 Stat. 428, which specifically mandated the Fourteenth Amendment be ratified in order to rejoin the United States
How tf is an amendment illegitimate? It’s an amendment. It amends the constitution
I’m going to introduce an amendment to the constitution that reads, “this amendment is unconstitutional”. Boom. Instant constitutional crisis.
paradoxical constitutional shenanigans let’s goooo
“This amendment makes the constitution unconstitutional”
Checkmate libs
Yes but see its inconvenient for me, so, you know.
Illegitimate.
Yeah buddy sure. You vs a Supreme Court justice. Who am I supposed to believe?
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no this is great because if original popular sovereignty is the basis of legitimacy then she’s definitely endorsing the idea that the united states itself is completely illegitimate. the constitution was imposed on the american people without the support of the necessary supermajority of those same people, since a supermajority of them were explicitly denied enfranchisement by that very constitution.
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:bruh:
Not shown in your screenshot, but actually present on the original version of the page being quoted, is a footnote that referenced 14 Stat. 428, which specifically mandated the Fourteenth Amendment be ratified in order to rejoin the United States
Source: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol107/iss4/3/
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Yeah, I think you nailed it