[Cultural Jihad]

This whole issue ignores the crux of our terrible Constitutional crisis: The Missing 13th Amendment specifies that any law written after 1822 by any lawyer is void and invalid. Therefore, traffic stops, the income tax, parking fees, property taxes, Social Security, all illegal! < /sarc>

[weikel]

I'd settle for invaliadating any law enacted after Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated( excepting the Coolidge administration).

[brityank]

This whole issue ignores the crux of our terrible Constitutional crisis: The Missing 13th Amendment specifies that ...

Seems we all lose.

The "Missing Thirteenth Amendment"

Twelve state ultimately ratified TONA, not enough to make it part of the Constitution under Article V on the he Constitution. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, through President James Monroe, reported to Congress in 1818 that the following actions had transpired:

Ratification's:

• Maryland- December 25, 1810
• Kentucky - January 31, 1811
• Ohio - January 31, 1811
• Delaware - February 2, 1811
• Pennsylvania - February 6, 1811
• New Jersey - February 13, 1811
• Vermont - October 24, 1811
• Tennessee - November 21, 1811
• Georgia - December 13, 1811
• North Carolina - December 23, 1811
• Massachusetts - February 27, 1812
• New Hampshire - December 10, 1812

Rejections:

• New York - March 12, a1812
• Connecticut - May 13, 1813
• Rhode Island - September 15, 1814
• South Carolina - December 21, 1814

No Reply:

• Virginia

Although Virginia did not reply to Adam's inquiry, its own legislative journal record that the state rejected TONA on February 14, 1811.