Posted on 07/29/2010 10:33:39 AM PDT by USALiberty
In the winter of 1983, archival research expert David Dodge, and former Baltimore police investigator Tom Dunn, were searching for evidence of government corruption in public records stored in the Belfast Library on the coast of Maine. By chance, they discovered the library's oldest authentic copy of the Constitution of the United States (printed in 1825). Both men were stunned to see this document included a 13th Amendment that no longer appears on current copies of the Constitution. Moreover, after studying the Amendment's language and historical context, they realized the principle intent of this "missing" 13th Amendment was to prohibit lawyers from serving in government.
So began a seven year, nationwide search for the truth surrounding the most bizarre Constitutional puzzle in American history -- the unlawful removal of a ratified Amendment from the Constitution of the United States. Since 1983, Dodge and Dunn have uncovered additional copies of the Constitution with the "missing" 13th Amendment printed in at least eighteen separate publications by ten different states and territories over four decades from 1822 to 1860.
In June of this year (1991), Dodge uncovered the evidence that this missing 13th Amendment had indeed been lawfully ratified by the state of Virginia and was therefore an authentic Amendment to the American Constitution. If the evidence is correct and no logical errors have been made, a 13th Amendment restricting lawyers from serving in government was ratified in 1819 and removed from our Constitution during the tumult of the Civil War.
Since the Amendment was never lawfully repealed, it is still the Law today. The implications are enormous.
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A. A good start.
Yeah - if only....
I think there’s about five more topics about this crap.
The “Lost” Thirteenth Amendment
Bank Index
Posted on 08/18/2002 5:32:42 AM PDT by Suzie_Cue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/735109/posts
War Dept. document from 1825 reveals critical clue
to missing 13th Amendment (tin foil hat alert)
Idaho Observer | 12/14/2002 | Idaho Oberver
Posted on 12/30/2002 9:21:34 AM PST by mgstarr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/814217/posts
The Missing 13th Amendment
The Commentator | 24DEC08 | Unknown
Posted on 12/24/2008 8:25:36 AM PST by Daddynoz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2153789/posts
Ok, let me wade in here.
This amendment would not ban lawyers in government, however it does make sense on keeping politicians and voters loyal by making them ineligible, for accepting titles or gifts from foreign sources.
However, instead of trying to argue that it was already passed, wouldn’t the route to pursue, would be to get 26 more states that hadn’t ratified it, to propose it in states legislatures, and ratify it? I mean, there’s not time limit on a proposed amendment, unless the amendment specifies that there be one.
mark
I think the 13th amendment is still missing. It is called the Federal Income Tax. Well maybe it is a crime to be born.
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