Obama creates backdoor amnesty program for illegals.

[Mr Khan]

leatherhat said:

Mr Khan said:

leatherhat said:

Mr Khan said:
Interesting that in *some* cases the original intent of the constitution is irrelevant to modern application, and yet in others the wisdom of the founding fathers is sacrosanct

I assume you're talking about the amendment issues, in which case the founding fathers have nothing to do with it. It was a ploy by Northern statesman to make sure that come the next elections blacks would vote for them and overwhelm white southerners to give them control of the South. Its vote pandering written into the constitution. Vote pandering not unlike Obama is doing now. 

Vote pandering was Amendment 15 (which forced the more convuluted variants of Jim Crow voting rules into effect). Amendment 14 resolved most of the other legal irregularities of the war, mostly to make sure the treacherous Southerners couldn't cock-block the changes that had already been made by force.

Or are we saying that the Founding Fathers are inherently superior to any who came after them?

Well they are certainly superior to the people behind reconstruction, which was an abject failure in almost every way possible. 

Only because they weren't punitive enough. The political will to really grind it in to the South and effect real cultural change was lost, and the Democrats forced Hayes to weasel out of it in exchange for the presidency due to the disputed election of 1876

The radicals weren't given enough free reign there