Posted on 12/26/2008 4:35:35 AM PST by urtax$@work
On Dec. 24, saw a posting titled: The Missing 13th Amendment. I saved the link and returned to it this morning to read it in depth, but found it had been pulled. Was this found to be unfit for discussion? Was it a bogus article in the first place??
This was the article address- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153789/posts
You get big ??? from me :)
As the Admin/Moderator did not post the reason for pulling the post, I’m gonna guess the answer is “We don’t know”.
The official FR nutbar:patriot content ratio exceeded official limits, and something had to go.
Maybe because the misplaced 13th Amendment has subsequently turned up.
... because “my finger” wasn’t available?
Maybe because it shows the War Between the States didn’t end slavery in the Northern States.
Cannot comment as to why the thread was pulled but according to the National Archives website, this is the “missing” XIII Amendment:
AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Note: Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865. A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Though I really shouldn't have to write this, under Article V, passage by the Congress simply starts the process. Ratification by 3/4 of the states completes the process. The website you provided does a pretty good job of highighting this fact; providing a list of states that had acted on it and noting that the number approving it was insufficient for adoption.
Consequently, the 1810 proposed 13th Amendment was never actually a part of the constitution.
More recently, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was passed by Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. However, it didn't get the necessary votes and failed. Would you have it listed as a "missing" amendment as well?
I never implied that it was, but if someone starts a thread about the "missing thirteenth amendement", it is probably about the proposed "Titles of Nobilty Amendment" that was proposed and erroneously shown as being part of the constitution in the US archives and in the compilations of statutes of many states in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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