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The precedent was already set by the 40th United States Congress.
how so? I see from your link that such an entity did exist.
They passed the 14th amendment and used it to bar a number of senior Confederates from office after the civil war
Thank you. I see it in section 3. I was vaguely aware something like that happened after the civil war but did not realize it was part of an amendment. Its blows my mind to think the republican party did all this back then.
Ah, the old ‘60s/‘70s repub-demo switcharoo!