Word: carpetbagging
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...first four years after being presented to the states. In only one case was an amendment rejected by more than onequarter of the states and subsequently ratified; this was the reconstruction amendment, No. 14, guaranteeing citizens' rights to Negroes. Ten Southern states rejected it, but later, when carpetbag governments were set up, ratified it. Barring such an unusual condition, an amendment which has been rejected by more than a quarter of the states may be considered about as good as dead...