Posted on 04/28/2016 7:25:51 PM PDT by Elderberry
Ha! Cruz is even more ineligible.
ping
Could you imagine a government “Of the People”?
I can.
Ping for tomorrow
Well that just wiped out our whole government except for Trump...
Isn’t that amazing!!!
What junk.
To elaborate: conflating lawyers licensed by a State with Knights subversive to a foreign power is sophistry. IOW, junk.
Subservient*
Oh yeah, we might also want to focus more on making sure violent felons can’t vote (something the demscum and GOPe are pushing for) as opposed to stripping people who pass a bar exam of their citizenship.
BtW, everyone hates lawyers - until they need one.
We are too busy trying to save a country from Hillary, et.al. for this BS.
How does someone know that you are not so stupid that you will fall for darn near anything? A good test might be whether you fall for the 13th Amendment scam or not.
The 13th Amendment scam derives from alleged “research” by David Dodge and Tom Dunn, a couple of wackos who chanced upon the “missing” 13th Amendment in a library in Maine, and concluded that not only had the Amendment been ratified, but that it also had been “hidden” for years by an obscure but elaborate and extensive conspiracy, and that the net effect of the Amendment was that no laws passed by Congress had any validity.
This was a scam from the outset. The idea was that scam artists could go around and pitch the “Missing 13th Amendment” and sell seminars and books and tapes and whatever on the subject. When this scam was first pitched in the early 1990s, it actually found favor with the Midwestern farmers who were battling with their local banks to keep control of the their family farms, and were more than willing to listen to tales of evil bankers and conspiring lawyers.
But a scam that smells so sweet is still a scam. And this scam never really caught on because even if you ass-u-me that the 13th Amendment was secretly passed, it is hard to then go to where this does anybody any practical good. The premise of Dodge and Dunn was along the lines that the 13th Amendment would have prohibited attorneys (which they ass-u-me is a “title”, although it is really a license) from holding seat in Congress, and thus they further ass-u-me that Congress is full of attorneys who would be thus un-seated. What these ace researchers weren’t able to figure out, however, is that Congress actually includes very few attorneys (in addition to, as noted above, that one is granted a license to be an attorney, not anointed by the Queen or President, just as a CPA or barber is granted a license).
Anyhoo, this 13th Amendment Scam has been thoroughly de-bunked time and time again by a number of qualified and accredited researchers, probably most thoroughly by Jol A. Silversmith in his work: “The Real Titles of Nobility Amendment FAQ”, appearing at http://www.thirdamendment.com/nobility.html and his “The ‘Missing Thirteenth Amendment’: Constitutional Nonsense and Titles of Nobility” at http://www.thirdamendment.com/missing.html
Notwithstanding that NO accredited legal scholar thinks the 13th Amendment argument is anything other than a scam, and though this scam has been discredited on the internet and elsewhere by real academics time and time again, the following fraudsters continue to perpetuate this scam.
It has no place here on FR
Virginia ratifiying the amendment in 1819 would not have given the 3/4 majority required since Louisiana entered the union in the intervening years.
This is all from a bunch of scammers who are trying to sell their books and tapes to the Great Unwashed.... all over again.
“BtW, everyone hates lawyers - until they need one.”
One of my favorite lines. On one occasion, I even sent it with my bill.
Be well.
You are right.
It’s total BS.
However, it seems we were wrong ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Nobility_Amendment
FWIW, ratification of this Amendment is still pending, and requires 26 more states today.
More interesting IMHO, is the also still pending Apportionment Amendment, one of the original twelve sent to the States ( ten finally made it as the "Bill Of Rights" ).
The horrifically titled Bill Of Rights actually started as 39, yes thirty-nine articles in the House from the great James Madison.
The Clinton’s came to mind first. But all those dirtbags are guilty of collusion. The country is a business and needs a businessman to run it, not a bunch of sneaky, slimy low life lawyers. Obama should reimburse the people for the salaries of the illegal czars he installed. And also for the staff of 55 his wife hired to fix her hair and dress her.
BFL
Absolutely fascinating. I will pass around. Too bad the original article misprints the date a few times but such is life.
I hope someone sends this to Trump’s people.
I couldn’t find anything other than this article repeated, verbatim, several times.
Makes me think this is an Internet scam.
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