The Unconstitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment by Hon. Leander H. Perez The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. -- C.L. de Montesquieu The purported Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is and should be held to be ineffective, invalid, null, void, and unconstitutional for the following reasons: 1. The Joint Resolution proposing said Amendment was not submitted to or adopted by a Constitutional Congress as required by Article 1, Section 3, and Article V of the U.S. Constitution. 2. The Joint Resolution was not submitted to the President for his...