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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 07:09 PM
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It's time to use the 14th Amendment against Florida
Edited on Fri May-07-04 07:12 PM by The Zanti Regent
If Florida wants to purge more black voters off the rolls as this article states:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8600742.htm?1c

Then it is time to use the 2nd section of Artilce 14 against Florida, which says:

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

If Florida purges blacks, then we should foce Congress to enforce the 14th Amendment and throw targeted Florida RepubliKKKans out of the House of Representatives!
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ex_jew Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 11:19 PM
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1. But doesn't the Amendment include the loophole "except for participation
in rebellion, or other crime" ? Look like they left a way out.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 11:30 PM
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2. surely there is a good democrat lawyer
sunny on the beach. i hear they are already doing it. why doesn florida do something.

just curious

hey i listened to one of the florida reps from the black caucus. he is good. i like this dude saw him on cspan on the floor. get him to work
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