A new debate over the 14th Amendment could squash the former president’s 2024 campaign.
, he supported the Union effort and embraced emancipation as a war measure and aim — who now hoped to effect a swift restoration of the old Union .
That theory first came to a test on Monday, December 4, when the new Congress, elected in November 1864, assembled. Numerous members-elect from Southern states were in the chamber, most of whom had served in civilian or military capacities for the Confederacy. It worked, for a time. Republicans were able to ensure that ex-Confederate military and civilian officials were barred from serving in office, and until those Reconstruction governments were overthrown one by one, by a combination of paramilitary violence and election fraud, Southern states enfranchised their Black citizens, several of whom served in Congress.
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