[Founding Father]

Not everyone agrees with the legal argument presented in your article:

http://federalistblog.us/mt/articles/14th_dummy_guide.htm

[djf]

And in fact the Secretary of State provided a sort of "signing statement" to the Letter of Transmittal, where he says basically that he is declaring it ratified because Congress passed an act ORDERING HIM to declare it ratified.

http://207.234.243.79/Page_Index.htm