The Fourteenth Amendment — The Answer After the War · Sitting 3
Gettysburg Inside the Pack
Dred Scott's citizenship holding, Bliss text, Section 1. Wills is a thesis. A speech cannot repeal a clause.
- 40 min
- Practice · Reflect
- 15–18
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Taney; McLean and Curtis dissents. Garry Wills 1992 is afterlife. Five holographs; Bliss is the usual classroom text.
Hard edges
- Do not ask whether Lincoln meant the 14th.
- Gettysburg is not the next figure.
If they say
- “Gettysburg is the 14th.”
- Speech vs five-section instrument. Read both.
- “Gettysburg repealed three-fifths.”
- A speech cannot repeal a clause. Section 2 can.
Objective
The student can sequence 1857 to 1863 to 1868, read Bliss against Section 1, and refuse Gettysburg-as-statute.
The holding the speech does not overrule
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): people of African descent, enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution. The citizenship holding is what Section 1's first sentence overrules. The speech at Gettysburg does not. Teach Taney's sentence, then Bingham's.
Proposition and instrument
Bliss: dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal; unfinished work; new birth of freedom. Wills argued the speech remade America by putting the Declaration at the center of the constitutional story. That is a thesis about afterlife. The 14th is one attempt — five years later — to write the proposition into operating rules.
Big idea
Sequence the holding, the speech, and the amendment. Do not let the speech swallow the instrument.
Try this~35 min total
Three dates
35 min- 1857 holding / 1863 Bliss / 1868 Section 1. One sentence each.
- Mark what the speech cannot do.
- Compare a model paraphrase of Gettysburg to Bliss.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
After the reading.
- Ask the model to recap Gettysburg and the 14th. Fail a swap.
- Sequence.
- Speech is not law.
- Dred Scott citizenship holding.
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If Gettysburg is more famous than Section 1, what does fame hide?
Sits beside
- History. Declaration sitting: proposition. This sitting: speech. 14th: rule.
- AI. Bliss vs paraphrase. Do not ask whether Lincoln meant the 14th.
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Integrity. Bliss vs paraphrase. Archives Section 1 vs paraphrase. No Lincoln-meant-the-14th.