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 Posted - 27 Oct 2001 : 20:54:16
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 The UNlawful 14th & 16th Amendments
The purported Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was never ratified by a majority of the sovereign States. According to legal research undertaken by attorney William D. Graves, as written in The Journal of Christian Reconstruction, Volume 13, Number 2, 1994, the required 28 state three-fourths majority ratification was never completed.
As proof, Graves states "By March 1867, only 17 of 37 States, or 11 short of the required three-fourths (28), had ratified the 14th Amendment. Congress then passed the Reconstruction Act providing for military occupation of all Southern States (excepting Tennessee which had ratified), which Act disenfranchised most white voters and which occupation would cease only upon a Southern State's ratification of the Amendment." The Civil War had just ended, and the defeated southern States were being forced into ratifying the 14th Amendment under the threat of continued marshal law until they did so.
Graves goes on to say "Under duress, at least 6 Southern States attempted ratification and their number was added to the 22 Northern States and Tennessee, presumably making the number of ratifying States 29, or 1 more than required". Since those six southern sovereign and independent State nations were under the control of Military Provisional Governors, any alleged "ratification" could not possibly be considered "voluntary".
(By presumption, the three-fourths majority was present, but according to official State archives and records, two States had already changed their positions and had legally revoked their previous ratifications). "However, both Ohio and New Jersey had rescinded previous ratification, but were nevertheless counted among the 29 by the Secretary of State".
Only 27 States had legally ratified the 14th Amendment, one State short of the required majority required by the Constitution. The Secretary of State of the United States Government ignored the facts and erroneously certified that 29 States had approved after having been given written notice from Ohio and New Jersey that they had recalled their ratifications. He then submitted his false certification to Congress who declared the 14th Amendment ratified on July 9, 1868.
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