Did The Congress Made Amendment 14 To Punish The South?

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United States, or individual state office. This is punishment to those leaders
of the Confederacy who have committed an act of treason. This is a suitable
punishment for these people who are not suited to hold any office.
Paragraph 4 states that debts incurred in aid of rebellion are void.
This drastically hurts the people who supported the south. If someone had sold
products to the south, expecting that after the war they would get paid a great
sum of money, than they would get nothing from the United States government and
nothing from those states. This was a sort of "payback" for those people who
aided the south.
These first four paragraphs, which three of them have to do with hurting
the south and only one to help the ex-slaves, have shown that this amendment was
what the south got for having this Civil War. Without this amendment, the
southern states could have gone unpunished, and possibly start another rebellion.
This amendment obviously goes against ...

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