re: #193 Scottish Dragon

Point taken, lol.

The 13th,14th and 15th were radical changes that have been called “The Second Founding” where the 19th finally got around to doing what states were already doing on their own initiative. Neither the 14th or 15th would remotely have been possible without southern states being absent from the process.

One little nit — the southern states weren’t absent, they were required to ratify the reconstruction amendments as a condition of being readmitted to full membership in the US.