KEN’S CORNER: The Missing 13th Amendment Has Been Found!
By TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
It was a cold winter in ’83, especially in Main. Two men, David Dodge and Tom Dunn, sorted through the dusty archival records in the Belfast Library. They were there on a mission: To find evidence of Government corruption. Down the long rows of books and boxes, yellow with age, they found something so controversial that it is still being talked about today.
They found the library’s oldest authentic copy of the United States Constitution, printed in 1825. Carefully on a large library table they paged through it. What they found began a seven year search for the truth, and rocked Capital Hill to its knees. Have you heard about it? I didn’t think so. Let me fill you in.
The document included a 13th amendment that does not appear on any one of our modern ones. It was studied by the finest historical minds in this country, and determined that the language of this missing part prohibited lawyers from serving in government. What! But it is true, a removal of a ratified Amendment for our own constitution of the United States? How can this happen?
Since that time, Dodge and Dunn have uncovered many more authentic Constitutions buried in other obscure archives, in as many as ten other states, so far. Indeed, this Amendment was legally ratified by the State of Virginia and is authentic. If this is true, lawyers were restricted from serving in government was ratified in 1819, and removed from the Constitution without due process during the Civil War. It is still a law today! What are the implications? Enormous. But without a free press to bring it to the people, it will remain hidden.
The “missing” thirteenth amendment reads as follows:
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the consent of Congress accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from an emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or ether of them.”
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Parting Shot …
