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>> The 14th not covering clean water at the time it was written is not because they didn't have germ theory. > That was the legal theory upthread. Which I cont
by tzs 9d ago
>> The 14th not covering clean water at the time it was written is not because they didn't have germ theory.
> That was the legal theory upthread. Which I contest.
Who argued that?
- ceejayoz 8d ago> The plaintiffs claimed this was a 14th amendment issue, but at the time the 14th was added cholera outbreaks were still somewhat common in the US and there was no remote notion of safe drinking water provided universally by municipal governments.