The author is not an attorney and does not present this memorandum as legal advice or as a substitute for representation by qualified counsel. The historical theories, constitutional questions, interpretive framework, and principal arguments presented here arose from the author’s decades of independent grassroots research, lived experience, civic advocacy, and study of Reconstruction-era legislation and history.
The author previously prepared and submitted a pro se amicus brief in Case No. 25-365, addressing substantially related constitutional and historical questions. Although that submission was not accepted for filing, it records the earlier development of several arguments now examined and expanded in this memorandum. It is identified here to preserve the specific identity, chronology, and continuity of the matter under review.
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The author remains responsible for the substance of the theories advanced. No legal proposition, quotation, citation, or historical claim should be accepted merely because it was generated, organized, or reviewed with artificial-intelligence assistance. All such matters are respectfully submitted to qualified counsel for independent verification, legal analysis, refinement, correction, and determination of their proper use.