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Originally posted by Axe0312
I've read about the Rothschilds, The NAU, the NAFTA, etc, but what is making everyone think these are for malintended purposes?
but I'm asking as to why everyone believes this and what makes everyone think this potentially good legislation may honestly be the beginning of the end.
Originally posted by acmeartifacts
I dont understand.
The first thing this guy Aaron Russo says is the 16th amendment was not ratified by the appropriate number of states to become official. I looked in the history books and it shows the dates each state ratified it. Should I even continue watching this video if the first thing he says is not correct?
Bill Benson's findings, published in "The Law That Never Was," make a convincing case that the 16th amendment was not legally ratified and that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error, but committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913. What follows is a summary of some of the major findings for many of the states, showing that their ratifications were not legal and should not have been counted.
The 16th amendment had been sent out in 1909 to the state governors for ratification by the state legislatures after having been passed by Congress. There were 48 states at that time, and three-fourths, or 36, of them were required to give their approval in order for it to be ratified. The process took almost the whole term of the Taft administration, from 1909 to 1913.
Knox had received responses from 42 states when he declared the 16th amendment ratified on February 25, 1913, just a few days before leaving office to make way for the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Knox acknowledged that four of those states (Utah, Conn, R.I. and N.H.) had rejected it, and he counted 38 states as having approved it. We will now examine some of the key evidence Bill Benson found regarding the approval of the amendment in many of those states.
How some of the states did not ratify the 16th Amendment