AMERICAN HISTORY

The Man Who Secured Your Freedom

John Bingham should be celebrated but he isn’t (I wonder why)

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” — The Fourteenth Amendment

The Clause of all clauses

America remembers Thomas Jefferson. Celebrates him. Defends him. He is a great man, one of the greatest in American history, according to the official American narrative.

John Bingham?

Most people have never heard of him.

Bingham is the man we all owe a debt. The biggest of all. Freedom.

Bingham is the author of the “Equal Protection Clause.” He not only wrote most of the Fourteenth Amendment, he was floor manager for the Amendment when the Radical Republicans (I hate that name by the way) pushed it…