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Do we really want people that participated in an attempted coup to serve in public office? Yeah, I know the Confederates were given a blanket pardon but does that really have anything to do with this current problem? No. So don't bother mentioning it. Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender SUPPORT Visit CONTRIBUTE to the PROJECT BTC: 33W8cvkCKupG77ChtTFXeAFmEBCaLcjsBJ ETH: 0x1f36edE7A4F06830D0e3d675776607790a2ce636 SHOP Parody Project Store: PATRONAGE To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page MAILING LIST (Never Shared) LYRICS Don Caron If you swore to defend the constitution, swore to uphold and to support then partook in an insurrection then you can’t hold office of any sort It’s written in the constitution, it’s simple, clear and clean, It follows the portion we call The Bill of Rights, the Amendment number fourteen Number Fourteen To whom might this federal law apply, this amendment number fourteen? There are so many that come to mind like Marjorie Taylor Green She that said under her leadership the coup would have been armed She said it would have been a success Now, that’s cause to be alarmed Be Alarmed Uphold the constitution Let’s do that for a start Fourteenth amendment’s a solution Let’s not fall apart Members of our current Congress put the strategy in place They met, they talked they worked details the goal to flip the electoral race They wove the darkest fabrication Pushed it hard to make it stick They broke their oath of office with their sneaky little trick There’s a list of Congress members that planned and spread The Lie That knew it was fabricated but they decided to give it a try Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry, Lauren Boebert Mark Meadows and Jim JordanAnd don’t leave out Louie Gohmert We can’t have people serving who failed to keep their oath They must be barred from holding office or put in prison or both THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT The section of the amendment referenced in this song is Section 3. Here is the full wording. Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. More About The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment, particularly its first section, is one of the most litigated parts of the Constitution, forming the basis for landmark Supreme Court decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) regarding racial segregation, Roe v. Wade (1973) regarding abortion (overturned in 2022), Bush v. Gore (2000) regarding the 2000 presidential election, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) regarding same-sex marriage. The amendment's first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship, nullifying the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be citizens of the United States. Since the Slaughter-House Cases (1873), the Privileges or Immunities Clause has been interpreted to do very little. The Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without a fair procedure. The Supreme Court has ruled this clause makes most of the Bill of Rights as applicable to the states as it is to the federal government, as well as to recognize substantive and procedural requirements that state laws must satisfy. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including all non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. The second, third, and fourth sections of the amendment are seldom litigated.
