(July 21, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Anima Wrote:(July 21, 2015 at 1:02 pm)Thena323 Wrote: My black ass is certainly happy that civil rights are not voted on or decided at state level. It's shameful to believe that the basic rights of American citizens should ever be a matter of public debate.
Your black ass should realize that your civil rights were approved by congressional vote in the 13th-15th amendments and then subsequently ratified by 2/3 majorities in the State congresses such that 2/3 majority of the States agreed to ratify the amendments in order to be enacted as law. In short your basic status and subsequent rights as an American citizen were a matter of public debate and voted upon and approved at the State level.
I'm specifically referring to the basic civil rights that are guaranteed to citizens through the US Constitution. Get it?
