The official story is: "the Original Thirteenth Amendment" - "Titles of Nobility and Honour" - was never ratified. That in the early days of the Republic all but two of the required States for a quorum ratified the amendment, thereby leaving the Amendment un-ratified. As the nation grew, the number of States required for a quorum also grew, therefore the amendment was never ratified.- From Wikipedia:
"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.
End of the Official Story.
On February 1, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment eventually became that which freed the slaves, and of course, the rest is history.
If the Official Story is to be believed, why then would one find anomalous evidence that simply does not support that story?
For starters, one of the States (Virginia), who the official story claims never ratified the amendment, had the same text of that amendment, between 1819–1867, written into that State's Criminal Code. Why would any State rewrite the words of the amendment into code if they hadn't also ratified the United States Constitutional Amendment?
Many of the members, here on Avalon, are already aware how the 'historic record' is not actually a record of what occurred.
I would suggest that we consider, over a fifty year period of time (1812 to 1861), enough Esquire Lawyers got themselves into positions of enough importance to obscure the records, leaving a paper trail that did not coincide with the facts of history. This is a template that has been reused consistently over the history of Humanity.
One of the anomalies pointing to this alleged rewriting, is the fact that many of the earlier publications of the United States Constitution did include the "Titles of Nobility and Honour" Amendment.
Of course not! Does anyone suppose a court of Esquires would ever uphold the idea that amendment was ever ratified?- From Wikipedia:
"The assertion that the Titles of Nobility Amendment has been ratified by the required number of states has never been upheld by any court in the United States."
In my humble opinion, the "Titles of Nobility" Amendment was ratified, and over an extended period of time, all evidence of that ratification was expunged from the record - in the same way so much of history has been altered, all the way back to remote antiquity.
What difference does any of this make, you might ask?
For starters, every lawyer practicing as an "Esquire" would effectively be considered a non-citizen, if the Real Thirteenth Amendment were acknowledged.
It would be a great benefit to Humanity if someone well versed in Constitutional Law could do the proper research to prove the Real Thirteenth Amendment was actually made a part of the U. S. Constitution.
I'd love to read some informed comments....