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Those same "Traitor-Filled" Legislators of the southern states voted to ratify the 13th amendment.

So either the 13th Amendment is Void, or the 14th is void. Take your pick, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Like there is some doubt the new legislatures would have not passed the 13th? I don't think so. Johnson impetuousity in reforming the legislatures was a mistake as their refusal to admit Blacks to citizenship showed. Congress rectified that mistake.

These arguments are as lame as those proporting to show there was "an original 13th" amendment (there wasn't since the requisite proportion never ratified it at the same time as a check of dates would show.) Nor are the arguments that the 16th is illegal worth a bucket of warm spit. But the lunatic fringe has to have something to talk about, I suppose.

I do want to thank you for posting the link. It inadvertently led me to some useful information about the case which established the citizenship of children born of aliens while here. Someone had claimed this was not the case and it had been dreamed up by some "liberal" court. I maintained that to change it would require another amendment. That may well be warranted as things have developed.