@evanpeterjones I didn't forget. Those amendments did some of the heavy lifting, but not all of it.

For example, it took a fairly expansive interpretation of a combination of 14&15A to enforce the Voting Rights Act for 40 years to prevent voter disenfranchisement on racial lines (until it was killed by SCOTUS in 2013).

To be fair though, maybe "marriage and abortion rights" would have been better and more timely examples to make my point than "slavery and voting rights".