The effect of this vote unmistakably settled, in the judgment of the law-making power of the Government, that the operation of the Fourteenth Amendment would not in the least degree be affected by the President's pardon.
Blaine asserts that the President's pardon does not affect the enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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