The amendment declared, "The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States". Supporters were bitterly disappointed today but acknowledged that the amendment was probably dead for this Congress.
The amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States".
Roberts dismissed the Amendment, declaring "we must decide whether we are to stand on the silly shibboleth of national security," a statement supporters of the Amendment eagerly seized upon.
The amendment declared that the pipeline project fulfilled all aspects of NEPA and modified the Mineral Leasing Act to allow the larger right-of-way for the Alaska pipeline.
This being the decision, how, consistently, can the state of South Dakota be held to have power to give effect to a character of claim as to which the 11th Amendment declares the judicial power of the United States shall not extend?
The 14th Amendment declares that "the validity of the public debt... shall not be questioned".
The North Carolina amendment declares that "marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state".
The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress.
The fourteenth amendment declares that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, and that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Would this amendment declare the right to vote for black men everywhere, or only in the South, only in ex-Confederate states?
