That court case existed. I'm kind of surprised that sort of tin foil hat brigade complaint got all the way to the supremes. It was only about fifty years earlier that we'd killed 600,000 people enforcing the supremacy of the federal government. I guess anybody with a lawyer can try anything.
Hojon, the amendment had to be passed by 2/3 of both houses of congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures. Bunchs of them get proposed every year and go nowhere. If the general population had not supported suffrage, I don't think it would have passed.
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