If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any 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 either of them.
Step-by-step: Was it ratified? Brian March's current research, detailed in his Letter to Congress - November 6, 1996 and supporting documents, shows that it was, indeed, ratified. [more to come]
Frequently Asked Questions about the 13th Amendment of 1812, and a growing collection of good Answers, too.
The central question of Jurisdiction (or Why the Courts abuse your rights): Documents, cases, explanations, etc. [a growing list]
One way we are planning to build this information site is by adding your questions to the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ section. The best person to ask questions of is the re-discoverer of the 13th Amendment, David Dodge <romans@gate.net>, though he tends to be very busy, so if you don't get a reply as soon as you want one, you can also ask the editors@cybernews.org <editors@cybernews.org>, who is writing these web pages and will try to answer your questions, and also add them and the answers to the FAQ.
We want your feedback about all aspects of this site: Content, page structure, and help of all sorts is greatly appreciated. If we waited until we were totally ready before putting these pages up you probably wouldn't be reading them now! Write to the editors@cybernews.org, with any information you have to offer, all your questions, and any help you want to give to this project.
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