Fourteenth Amendment
Debating the Public Debt in 1866 (and 2023)
The Congress that framed Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment thought the U.S. had to pay all public debts. Will Congress in 2023 agree?
Mark A. Graber is the Regents Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is the author of Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Fourteenth Amendment I (forthcoming, University Press of Kansas), as well as numerous other works on constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional politics, and pretty much any other subject in which “constitutional” is used as an adjective.
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The Congress that framed Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment thought the U.S. had to pay all public debts. Will Congress in 2023 agree?
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