I Don’t Want Trump to Quit the Race.

So, now for the third time, voters in another state, this time in Colorado, will be able to exercise their “Constitutional right to vote for the candidate of their choice.” In this case, as in the other similar cases in Minnesota and Michigan, the candidate happens to be Donald Trump.

These three attempts to get Trump thrown off the ballot are based on the 14th Amendment, which was passed in 1868 and was largely written to define the whole issue of citizenship, since the 13th Amendment, passed in 1865, abolished slavery and immediately turned 4.5 million pieces of chattel property into human beings deserving of civil rights.

But this amendment also settled a score from the Civil War itself, because Section 3 says: “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.”