@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:dAvId: Do yu thnk conservatives thunked up the idear of the 14th Amendment?
Joe(didthey or dint they?)Nation
OK:
yes, inasmuch as Congressman John Bingham, the author of its first section,
including its "privileges or immunities" clause asserted that he intended to
reverse, negate
and reject the USSC's holding in
Barron v. Baltimore that the Constitution (Bill of Rights)
does not mean what it says, thereby restoring its original meaning,
that was conservative of the original (pre-Barron) meaning.
Unfortunately, the USSC fought back in its
Slaugherhouse cases,
taking
no notice of what Bingham had said about his Amendment.
David