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When just 10 percent of the population holds
an unshakable belief,
their belief will always be adopted by the majority
of the society.
"The
tyranny of the majority is a
very real danger.
It is a mistake to
suppose that the
majority is necessarily correct.
On every new question the
majority is always wrong in the beginning.
Whenever any new
fundamental issue arises, the majority are in the wrong, as they are guided by
tradition,
prejudice and
habit.
A source of evil
in large representative democracies is
most of the electorate
are blind to their own direct
vital interest in most of the questions that arise.
Should Welsh
children be allowed the use of the Welsh language in schools?
Should
gypsies be compelled to abandon
life to serve authority?
Should coal miners work an eight-hour
day?
Should the
Sphinx be compelled to call in doctors in case of serious illness?
These are matters of
passionate interest to all sections of the community.
And they are
decided according to the
wishes of the numerical majority.
Intense desires of a minority
will be overborne by uninformed
whims.
Geographically
concentrated minorities have a chance of self determination.
If
they are scattered and politically feeble, like the gypsies, they stand a very
poor chance against the prejudices of the majority.
Even when geographically concentrated, like the Irish,
they may fail to obtain their wishes, as they arouse some
instinct of domination in the
majority.
Such a
state of affairs is
the negation of representative
democratic principles.
Progress comes through
the gradual effect of a minority in
converting opinion by altering
custom of the majority of the people in the culture.
In a free
society the majority refrains
from imposing its will as regards matters in which uniformity is not
absolutely necessary." - Bertrand Russell
16th
Bill Benson discovers that both the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Amendments to the US Constitution have not been properly ratified
and, therefore, do not exist.
Philander Chase Knox, the Secretary of
State, committed fraud when he declared the 16th amendment ratified in February
1913 shortly before leaving office.
Philander Chase Knox served as: a
director of the Fifth National Bank of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh
National Bank of Commerce;
counsel for the Carnegie Steel taking
a prominent part in organizing the United States Steel Corporation in 1901;
served as Attorney General in the cabinets of
William McKinley and
Theodore Roosevelt and
served as Pennsylvania Senator.
1909
16th
amendment is sent out to state governors for ratification by the state
legislatures after having been passed by Congress.
There are 48 states
at that time, and three-fourths, or 36, of are required to give their approval
for the amendment to be ratified.
February 25,
1913
Philander Chase Knox declares the 16th amendment ratified
after recieving responses from 42 states.
Philander Chase Knox
acknowledges that four of those states (Utah, Conn, R.I. and N.H.) had rejected
it, and he counted 38 states as having approved it.
Chief legal counsel,
Reuben Clark, declares states are not allowed to change the amendment in any
way.
In Kentucky, the legislature acted on the amendment without having
received it from the governor (the governor of each state was to transmit the
proposed amendment to the state legislature).
The version of the
amendment that the Kentucky legislature makes up and acts upon omitted the
words "on income" from the text.
In Oklahoma, the legislature changes
the wording of the amendment and this is the version they sent back.
The state constitution of Tennessee prohibites the state legislature
from acting on any proposed amendment to the United States Constitution until
after the next election of state legislators to give the proposed amendment a
chance to become an issue in the state legislative elections.
Tennessee
legislature acted illegally by voting before they were legally authorized to do
so.
Thirteen states, including Tennessee, failed to read the resolution
on three different days as prescribed by Article II, Section 18. This provision
is a requirement as it: allows for a cooling off period; enables members who
may be absent one day to be present on another; allows for a better familiarity
with, and understanding of, the measure under consideration as some members may
not read the resolution before voting
on it.
States violating this procedure were: Mississippi, Ohio,
Arkansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, West Virginia, Indiana, Nevada, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Colorado, and Illinois.
Texas and Louisiana violate provisions in their state
constitutions prohibiting the legislatures from empowering the federal
government with any additional taxing
authority.
Several state
constitutions limited the taxing authority
of their legislatures, which could not give to the
federal government
authority they did not have.
State constitutional violations make
approval of amendment null and void.
For verification purposes all
public documents must be properly certified, signed, and sealed by the
appropriate official(s) as was the case for all documents to be legally binding
at that time.
Ohio, California, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Minnesota
never document.
Virginia and Pennsylvania ignored the proposed
amendment.
Florida rejected the amendment.
Vermont and
Massachusetts had rejected the amendment by recorded votes but claimed it had
passed. West Virginia claimed it had approved it but never filed legal
notification of passage.
17th
April 11, 2002 State of Alabama decides to ratify the
Seventeenth Amendment - 89 years after the alleged ratification.
Sweet Home
Alabama
July 1, 2010 97 years after the
alleged ratification of the amendment, the State of Delaware ratifies it.
April 1, 2012 99 years after the alleged
ratification, the State of Maryland votes to ratify the Seventeenth
Amendment.
"I love all those who laugh at me more
than any of the rest.
Why that is so I do not know and cannot
explain, but so be it.
I am told that I am vague and confused; if so
now, what shall I be later on?
It is true indeed; I
am vague and confused; as time goes on I shall be more so.
Of
course I shall
make many blunders before I find out how to preach, that is, find out what
words to say, what things to do, for it is a very difficult task.
I see clear as
daylight, who makes not mistakes?" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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