WI 14th amendment kept ex rebels of juries

As I understand it the defeat of KKK and associated terror in the 1870s was hard because of the difficulties in obtaining convictions from white southern juries.

Supposed the 14th Amendment had excluded ex rebels from serving in that capcity.

Could this have happened? If so would it have been a game changer?
 
As I understand it the defeat of KKK and associated terror in the 1870s was hard because of the difficulties in obtaining convictions from white southern juries.

Supposed the 14th Amendment had excluded ex rebels from serving in that capcity.

Could this have happened? If so would it have been a game changer?


Virtually all the disabilities imposed on ex-Rebs by the 14A were lifted by Congress in 1872. There is no reason to suppose that the ban on jury service would not have gone the way of all the others.

The laws weren't the problem, so much as the lack of will to enforce them over the long haul - a bit like the Treaty of Versailles later.
 
Virtually all the disabilities imposed on ex-Rebs by the 14A were lifted by Congress in 1872. There is no reason to suppose that the ban on jury service would not have gone the way of all the others.

The laws weren't the problem, so much as the lack of will to enforce them over the long haul - a bit like the Treaty of Versailles later.

Also, there were a lot of Redeemers who hadn't officially served in the CSA, and within a few years younger men who'd been too young would be in the jury pool.
 
Also some of the Southern Unionists who didn't give a damn about slavery but saw secession as treason. They probably couldn't care less about what happens to Blacks either.
 
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