Towards the end of In at the Death it is mentioned that the US intends to reintegrate the defeated Confederacy back into the US, and that the Confederacy will never again exist as an independent nation.
Imagine for a minute, that the US is successful in its attempts to reabsorb the defeated Confederate states of America, and that by 1959, or so, the last former Confederate state has been readmitted back into the United States of America. By 1959, all of the former Confederate citizens are now US citizens, and those who didn't like the idea of becoming US citizens have left North America for other parts of the world.
How many decades would it take before someone from the "New South" could be elected to the office of President of the United States of America? Also, Article II of the Constitution states that only a natural born citizen may become president, but the Constitution does not specifically define what the phrase "natural born Citizen" actually means.
Suppose that a Southern politician born during the era of the Confederacy runs for the US presidency during the 1970s. Could the supporters of the southerner running for president argue that the Confederate States were never really a legitimate country, it was an illegal regime forced upon the North American continent by outside forces, and therefore, any and all persons born in the Confederacy are automatically defacto US citizens?
or...
Would the US have to amend its constitution sometime during the 1950s, in order to give people born in the Confederacy the right to run for the office of US President, after their state has been readmitted back into the Union?
Of course by this time the Freedom Party is illegal, and I'm imagining that the Confederate Whigs have joined the US Democrat Party to become known as Dixiecrats, while the Radical Liberals have joined the US Republican Party.
Imagine for a minute, that the US is successful in its attempts to reabsorb the defeated Confederate states of America, and that by 1959, or so, the last former Confederate state has been readmitted back into the United States of America. By 1959, all of the former Confederate citizens are now US citizens, and those who didn't like the idea of becoming US citizens have left North America for other parts of the world.
How many decades would it take before someone from the "New South" could be elected to the office of President of the United States of America? Also, Article II of the Constitution states that only a natural born citizen may become president, but the Constitution does not specifically define what the phrase "natural born Citizen" actually means.
Suppose that a Southern politician born during the era of the Confederacy runs for the US presidency during the 1970s. Could the supporters of the southerner running for president argue that the Confederate States were never really a legitimate country, it was an illegal regime forced upon the North American continent by outside forces, and therefore, any and all persons born in the Confederacy are automatically defacto US citizens?
or...
Would the US have to amend its constitution sometime during the 1950s, in order to give people born in the Confederacy the right to run for the office of US President, after their state has been readmitted back into the Union?
Of course by this time the Freedom Party is illegal, and I'm imagining that the Confederate Whigs have joined the US Democrat Party to become known as Dixiecrats, while the Radical Liberals have joined the US Republican Party.