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States which had never attempted secession, those
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States which had never been members of the Southern Confederacy, as constituting the
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States of the Union at that moment, and all other territory and people subject to the jurisdiction of the United States as being under the exclusive government of the central Government; to amend the Constitution by a three-fourths majority of these loyal
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States ; and then to admit these reconstructed communities as new
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States
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States of the Union with the amended Constitution would imply their assent to the Amendment as well as to every other part of the Constitution. The more moderate Republicans feared that the Southern communities would not feel obligated by a Constitution amended in this way. It is difficult to see why they should not. The Southern statesmen knew that Congress had no power under the Constitution to require of new
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States