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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You initially suggested that the 14th Amendment does not empower Congress to pass civil rights laws, and I am telling you that not only is that wrong, the legislative power provided in Section 5 is in significant respects more robust than Congress's other powers.
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No, I didn't. I said the interstate commerce clause had been used to uphold civil rights laws and that the 14th amendment was used in the badge of slavery cases. However, as you correctly pointed out to me, I was thinking of the 13th amendment, which I was. And as I told you, my bad, I will try to do better in the future. I wasn't talking about equal protection and I do recognize that equal protection is used in race cases. It is just that I got the number 13 confused with the number 14.
I thought you were talking about a different amendment (13th), but as I have now stated several times, it is because I confused the numbering of the amendments.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
but I also don't know why it would matter.
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It doesn't matter now that you have pointed out to me that I was thinking of the 13th amendment when I responded.
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