Free Citizens Vote: The Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution

good poll!

we should poll the two amendments that almost made it into the bill of rights but failed to be ratified by the states in time, too

I feel like the 14th is actually maybe the bigger deal historically speaking but idk 13th was such a huuuuuge necessary corrective anybody who doesn't vote for it is gonna kinda look like a jerk

what if I have to vote against it to spite Dr. Morbius because silby put "Spielberg" in there?

I kid, I kid

anybody who doesn't vote for it is gonna kinda look like a jerk

not when there's a secret ballot

Shakey I think you're right and I think there's a non-jerky way to vote that way too, in that the 14th indisputably enacts one of America's two good ideas, birthright citizenship, and introduces what was almost a trojan horse of a radical constitutional provision in the equal protection clause, whereas the 13th was simply the initial undoing of a great evil, almost a bare minimum step.

Would love to know if women's suffrage campaigners made noise about the 15th amendment, if anyone has a good read to share

just anecdotally a few years I was going through abolitionist photos portraits/bios and it was interesting to see references to ideological splits that hadn't occurred to me - women who were vocal abolitionists being pissed that universal suffrage wasn't going to include women, arguing about whether they should support such proposals etc. I didn't read any primary texts though, this was all sort of incidental and I don't recall if this was in the context of the 15th amendment specifically

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Not sure where to post this but I’m a 45 year old man raised in the southeast and am just learning about the Wilmington , NC coup.

Thank god for PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-coup-wilmington-1898/