due process denied

In 1865, the people of the South lay prostrate at the feet of victorious Union armies. Little did they realize that they were about to lose much more than the Civil War. They were about to be shut out of the government of the United States. The result would be the Fourteenth Amendment, proposed by a Congress that had excluded repesentatives from almost one-third of the states and ratified by reconstruction governments in the South established at the proverbial point of a bayonet. Proposal a...