Congressional (radical) Reconstruction continues: The Republican (nationalist) 40th Constitutional Congress (elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]) orders William H. Seward, Secretary of State, to declare the unlawfully proposed 14th amendment to have been properly ratified by three-fourths (28) of the requisite States (37).
NOTES:
- Twelve changed the wording, unlawfully altering the meaning of the amendment;
- Ten confederate States were coerced into ratifying the amendment, as a condition of their re-admission into the Union;
- Seven committed errors in capitalization and punctuation;
- Three States were ineligible;
- Two States rejected the amendment;
- Two States abstained;
- One State rescinded its ratification.
[restored 9/12/2020] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
The legislature of the confederate State of Georgia—under duress—ratifies the unlawfully proposed 14th amendment to the Constitution for the united States.
[restored 9/12/2020]
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
U.S. Congress, Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation, annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1987), 330(n6).
“Letter from J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Solicitor of the Department of State, to Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State,” Bill Benson and Martin J. “Red” Beckman, The Law that Never Was, (South Holland, Illinois: Constitutional Research Associates, 1985), 1:3, 10-14.
Leslie Wolf-Phillips, ed., Constitutions of Modern States, (New York: Fredrick Praeger, 1968), 216.
Chronology
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The Confederate States of America
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Reconstruction era of the United States
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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