Posted on 10/09/2024 5:20:05 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The fact that the 13th Amendment was functionally abrograted during the Civil War, generally synchronizes with the fact that the Civil War is considered by many historians, a "crossing the Rubicon" temporal marker, the "beyond which" everything changed, and if you want to know something about the presumption of normality, you need to go back to study conditions of life before the Civil War.
Some assert that every U.S. President who was assassinated, had gone against Central Bankers' privileges. It is said that when an assassination attempt against Andrew Jackson failed, and the President personally apprehended the attempted assassin, when asked why he did it, his response was, "for sound money".
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Even if lawyers are prohibited from serving, the lawyers in Congress and those running will simply follow the example of US military people, who ‘retire’ from the military at age 23 (or whatever), go to Ukraine as a ‘private citizen’ and fire off some missiles, and then return to the US and ‘rescind’ their retirement.
In other words, lawyers will suspend (or cancel) their license - go to Congress, and then simply get them back. If the means doesn’t exist now in their states, they’ll be created.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”...William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2.
BTTT
Moreoever, just because lawyers couldn’t service in congress doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have lawyers surrounding them, as well as operatives for the party bosses.
This isn’t 1810. People don’t just decide they’ve had a decent life and they want to serve their neighbors as statesmen. This is a system. It’s a machine.
Save for future reading. Meanwhile...”No State shall... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a tender in Payment of Debts”
Salmon P. Chase, as Secretary of the Treasury in the Civil War, declared Greenback paper money to be legal tender.
He became Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, after the Civil War was over he then declared ONLY GOLD AND SILVER to be real money.
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Well, that is an interesting read. But then, we live in a time when dolts and twits rule over us by either election fraud or election by people who believe that they will get more free stuff by voting for them. The Nation is doomed, the only question is will it happen sooner(by electing liberals) or later(by electing non liberals)...
“...the example of US military people, who ‘retire’ from the military at age 23 (or whatever), go to Ukraine as a ‘private citizen’ and fire off some missiles, and then return to the US and ‘rescind’ their retirement.”
Kookerie!
It’s not that hard to operate a computerized fire control system. All that’s needed is a plastic overlay and a translated firing instructions.
It couldn’t possibly be the people you’re invading, killing and saying have no right to exist are firing back at you?
People like you never learn. That’s why we have weapons. To use them against people who fail to respect morality.
This statement does not make sense. An obvious reason to pay "reparations", which, I believe were mostly actual debts, was to be able to maintain commercial relations with England and territories controlled by England. It is a simple part of peace negotiations. The negotiations went on for a long time.
All the different parts of the "peace treaty" were not enforced until after the war of 1812, which showed the British we were not just a flash in the pan, so to speak.
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Who cares.
Interesting. Except the amendment cannot be stretched to include lawyers. Lincoln didn’t get his “lawyer” title from a king or nobleman. He studied under a lawyer and at some point called himself a lawyer.
By way of fact, the US did not have a central bank until the Federal Reserve System was established in 1913, long after the Civil War. Notably, even a financial system based on the gold standard requires a lender of last resort, and that need became acute after the intense development of the US economy during the Civil War.
In 1869, a US Treasury official under the newly elected Grant broke Fisk and Gould's gold squeeze by providing emergency liquidity in the form of government gold sales so that the entire US financial system did not collapse. The alternatives to such haphazard government intervention in an emergency are either a central bank or a combine of vastly rich and influential people that function as the lender of last resort in a financial crisis, as JP Morgan famously catalyzed to end the financial panic of 1907.
There was too much chance and potential for mischief and hostile press exposure against the rich in that, so they supported the creation of an official US central bank in the form of the Federal Reserve System. The rich realized that it was better to have a central bank like the Fed making such decisions and getting the heat than themselves.
In the aggregate, established big money prefers stability to unpredictability and chaos. And, by the way, so does just about everyone else.
Don’t have the time to read all that, but just cannot see where lawyers are meant. However, it would be a good thing to see lawyers not permitted in government.
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I'm not renouncing it, so there.
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