Gunner Quinn
The 16th and 17th amendments failed ratification for a number of reasons which include lack of ratification by several states, several states that changed the wording of the amendment and sent back an amendment that was different from that which congress sent forth, and one oddity: Ohio. Ohio was not admitted into the union until the 1950s since they never sent their formal acceptance of statehood until then; it seems somehow the paperwork was lost in the process and never sent to Congress. Therefore, it was not possible for Ohio to vote since it was actually still a territory at the time.
I have two original volumes of documentation that neither the 16th or 17th amendments were lawfully ratified in accordance with Article 5 of the Constitution, published under the title The Law That Never Was. When these volumes were presented to Congress then Senator Orrin Hatch tried to buy the copyright to them, and was refused. He then had the Department of Justice harass and eventually arrest the surviving author and subjected him to severe punishment and the “issue” was subsequently buried. The Federal Reserve Act was promulgated and forced into being by the same people who foisted the 16th and 17th Amendments upon us. Look at the damage this cancer has done to our nation!
The two authors, both of whom I’ve met, Red Beckman and Bill Benson were very meticulous in their work to uncover the truth. I had originally bought their two books (Volume 1 and Volume 2) back in the late 1990s and as I recall paid $35 for them. Unfortunately, a former associate of mine borrowed them, and never returned them. He passed away and I never got my books back. I found a set on eBay and bought them, paying $2,500 for the pair.
The authors had two thousand copies of the two volumes printed. Copies were sent to members of congress, the president, and the Supreme Court justices. Very few copies of the books remain today and when they do surface they are horrendously overpriced, though their true value is priceless.
“In his book, Benson made the following claims:
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- Seven states (Connecticut, Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia) did not ratify the amendment, and it was reported as such.
- Two states (Kentucky and Tennessee) did not ratify the amendment, but Secretary Knox reported that they did.
- Eight states (Delaware, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wyoming) were reported by Secretary Knox as having ratified the amendment, but the States actually have missing or incomplete records of the ratification procedures or votes, and there is no conclusive record that they ratified the amendment or reported any ratification to the Secretary of State.
- Six states (Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Washington) did approve the amendment, but the Governor or another official who was required by their respective state constitutions to sign the legislation into law did not sign the legislation.
- In twenty-five states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming), the legislature violated a provision of its state constitution during the ratification process.
- Twenty-nine states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming) violated “state law” or procedural rules during the ratification process.
Additionally, Benson asserted that:
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- Twenty-two states approved the amendment, but with changes in wording, and the inexact version was accepted as a ratification of the original version.
- One state approved the amendment, but with variations in spelling, and the inexact version was accepted as a ratification of the original version.
- At least twenty-six states approved the amendment, but with changes in punctuation, and the inexact version was accepted as a ratification of the original version.
Benson asserted that the Oklahoma State Legislature changed the wording of the amendment they approved so that it meant the opposite of the original amendment as it was submitted to the States by Congress, but that Secretary Knox counted Oklahoma as having approved the amendment.
Benson also asserted, as an example of a state’s violation of its own Constitution, laws, or procedural rules, the claim that the Tennessee State Constitution prohibited the legislature from acting on any proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution submitted by Congress until after the next state legislative elections. According to Benson, the Tennessee legislature acted on the proposed 16th amendment the same month it was received (prior to any new state legislative elections).”
(NOTE: As much as I do not like Wikipedia I cite the foregoing information from there and it is close to being accurate.)
There was and still is, a huge effort on the part of what passes as “government” to destroy these books and the truthful information therein.
JWR Adds: There was a Federal case on the matter that reached the Federal appellate court level, in the Seventh Circuit: UNITED STATES v. BENSON (2009).
Please believe me when I tell you the government is not our friend and it will do everything it can to destroy you … or me or anyone else it deems a threat. Just as there is to suppress the ratification of the first (original ) amendment in the Bill of Rights legislation. Mainly because it will expose the illegitimacy of the Apportionment Act of 1921…
I am making this claim because we have become an enslaved nation due to our national ignorance of the truth and our unwillingness to stand up to it. The restoration of our Republic must begin with prayer asking God to forgive our sins both individually as well as the “national sin”. I believe that ignorance is a sin if, once we admit our ignorance, we fail to educate and correct ourselves.
Of all the expensive books I’ve bought over the last 50 + years these two volumes are among the most valued and cherished tomes in my collection. My proof set of The Messages and Papers of the Presidents is at the top of the list right next to the Bible my mother had when she went to be with Christ and left to me in her will.
I urge SurvivalBlog readers to pray about this. What good will it do if we, or our progeny, survive TEOTWAWKI only to strive to rebuild out of ignorance? Imagine if our founding fathers could have seen the Republic today with all that has happened, how different would their aim have been? I believe they did see many possible threats but chose to let us sort them out as a self-governing Republic based upon our true faith and allegiance to “Divine Providence”, their way of saying Jesus Christ.
Hosea 4:6 teaches:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
For some further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_that_Never_Was
Read the full article here