Want to explain how an amendment to the Constitution, passed in accordance with the rules laid out in the Constitution, can be fraudulent?
Pretty easy the 17th.....Madison put a clause in the Constitution that no state without it’s consent can be deprived of it’s sufferage in the Senate....They did not get the unanimous consent so all states were deprived of their sufferage in the Senate...Score one for tyranny...16th deadline passes without the necessary votes. No problem Solicitor General just waits a couple of weeks till he has enough (no matter that the ratifications were changed by the states). Score 2 for tyranny.
The 14th is fraudulent.
“Want to explain how an amendment to the Constitution, passed in accordance with the rules laid out in the Constitution, can be fraudulent?”
As I just explained, they could give a rat what the Constitution requires.
You might want to ask how Ohio, which was not admitted to the union until 1952 was counted in the ratification votes. ( A border dispute prevented their petition for statehood to be finalized ). It is pretty much what the pols want the pols get there is no boundary they will not cross. There is not some wording they will abide by if they want something accomplished. These are creative folks and they love their tyranny.