re: #396 Obdicut

The fourteenth amendment was the one passed in the Civil War timeframe, and didn’t involve the founding fathers.

Indeed. It framers had as their intention the repair of the political and social mistakes that had led to war. They were not successful in their own time, as guerrilla opposition in the South ultimately proved stronger than the Northern willingness to force change through, but the 14th and 15th Amendments did prove the Constitutional anchors to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.