>Where do you come up with these schemes?
Amendment 14 Section 3
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.
Not my "scheme". The people who wrote the 14th Amendment after the civil war came up with it, and the states voted to get it added to the constitution. It's still there, and every one who has taken an oath to defend the constitution never said "except for the 14th amendment".
