The Fourteenth Amendment — The Answer After the War · Sitting 5
The Docket Is Not the Sentence
Procedure vs substance. State action. Color-blind vs anti-subordination as 7.4, not a team assignment. Dobbs reversing Roe as a lesson that liberty in doctrine is not liberty in the sentence.
- 32 min
- Companion
- Adult
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Theological humility. 7.4 exists. Do not run it as this sitting's verdict. Yick Wo for person/citizen architecture.
Hard edges
- Do not recruit 7.4.
- Do not skip state action.
If they say
- “It immediately ended hierarchy.”
- The sentence was written. Plessy is in the story.
- “The 14th only applies to race.”
- Occasion was race. Grammar is person.
Objective
The parent can teach both clauses without finishing America's later fights for the student.
How to keep the piles
Clause: states, persons, process, protection of the laws. Docket: Lochner, Meyer, Pierce, Griswold, Roe, Glucksberg, Obergefell, Dobbs; Plessy, Brown, Loving, Reed, SFFA. Line: state action, Civil Rights Cases, Shelley, Morrison. The parent shows the piles. The sitting does not award a championship.
Big idea
The sentence is shorter than the doctrine. Keeping is history. The clause is the clause.
Try this~32 min total
Parent piles
32 min- Three piles: clause / state action / later liberty and equality cases.
- Write the dinner reply to 'the 14th ended segregation in 1868' and to 'it's only about race.'
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
After the reading.
- Ask the model if the 14th ended segregation in 1868. Fail yes. Demand Plessy.
- Clause vs docket.
- State action.
- No team.
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Dinner table
When a Court changes its mind about liberty, did the 14th change — or did the docket?
Sits beside
- Thinking. Source before summary.
Booklet
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Integrity. No caucus. Clause then docket.