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Attack 14th Amendment
In the petition Mr. Bolte claims that 11 states of the union at the time of these adoption of the 14th amendment were unconstitutionally deprived of their equal suffrage in the Senate, and that six states were forced to ratify the amendment by coercion.
The reporter's inquiry was inspired by the recent attack made on the validity of the 14th amendment and the attempt to prohibit negroes from voting. The suit is about to be brought in the name of H. E. Bolte, an attorney of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bolte claims that...
In commenting upon this Professor Wambaugh said that whatever the history of the case might be on July 21, 1868, Congress adopted a resolution declaring that the 14th amendment had been ratified by the necessary number of states, and seven days later the Secretary of State issued a proclamation decreeing...
Professor Wambaugh stated further that about once every ten years some person writes a magazine article, taking the attitude that the amendment was not properly ratified.