So begins Michael Abramowicz’s 1997 law review article, Beyond Balanced Budgets, Fourteenth Amendment Style, 33 Tulsa L. J. 561 (the quote is from the placard of a whimsical protester in Lafayette Park). His thesis is that the original meaning of the first sentence of Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment, if it were to be [...]
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