History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0014 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Disqualification and Debt
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The idea
The Fourteenth Amendment barred from office anyone who had sworn to support the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion, unless two-thirds of Congress relented.
In practice
Union war debts honoured, and every Confederate debt declared illegal and void.
Where people slip
In eighteen sixty-six most former Confederate states refused to ratify. Tennessee alone accepted, and was readmitted.
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