re: #232 Dark_Falcon

Well, they don’t want to repeal the 13th Amendment, “Thirteeners” want to add an amendment and renumber the rest. To be fair, such people have clearly stated they don’t want the recognized 13th Amendment repealed.

Technically, they claim that the original not-quite-ratified version should replace the actually-ratified version. That version would disqualify anyone having any kind of title or receiving any foreign honor from holding office. So if you accept a Nobel Prize, that automatically kicks you out of government. Also if you’re a lawyer. So pretty much every act of Congress since 1819 would be voided.

As far as the 14th amendment goes, repealing it would also repeal this part:

…But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

So if it were repealed, families of former slaveowners would be able to sue the federal government for taking away their slaves.