The thirteenth amendment ended slavery. The fourteenth amendment gave the children of slaves citizenship. Today the Supreme Court ruled - 6 to 3 - that children born in these United States are American citizens regardless of whether their parents were slaves or millionaires, Finnish tourists or 9th generation Americans. That is, most of the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is still more important than the opinion of a former Reality TV star.
Trump was transformed from a Reality TV star into a presidential candidate by claiming that President Barack Obama - whose father was African - was not born in these United States. Or at the very least did not qualify as a citizen given who his father was. It is absurd that his attack on the fourteenth amendment - his claim that only certain people born here qualified as citizens - was taken this seriously.
Trump's Republican Party has very little in common with Lincoln's Republican Party.
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