When most people think about the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution they think of the Anti-slavery Amendment; the Amendment which was shortly after the Civil War; the one which portends to prohibit involuntary servitude. However, a growing body of convincing evidence, derived from researching the nations archived law books, suggests that the Anti-slavery Amendment could not be the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, because a 13th Amendment already existed.
The original Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America, which is known as the Titles of Nobility Amendment ("TONA"), was unanimously ratified by all thirteen states which then existed in the Union [in 1810] during the time period between 1810 and 1819, after which it was duly printed in every law book published by each of the several states of the Union.
The [original] 13th Amendment read as follows:
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.
However, at some point during the Civil War, the Titles of Nobility Amendment was inexplicably "memory-holed," and replaced by the Anti-Slavery Amendment. Why this was done, and under what authority this action was taken is still unclear to this researcher, but, what is clear, is that the original 13th Amendment Amendment has not been printed in any law book since 1876.
The following is an informative video, introducing this topic.
Evidence of the Titles of Nobility Amendment being voted on by the U.S. Senate (26 in favor, and only 1 opposed) can be found at the Library of Congress Web site.
Journal of The Senate, April 26, 1810 (page 503)
According to the Journal of the Virginia Senate; on Tuesday, May 1, 1810, the resolution to amend was properly enrolled and ratified on that date by the Virginia House and Senate, making Virginia the first state to ratify the Amendment.
On March 12, 1819 the State of Virginia, with the enactment and publication of the laws of Virginia, became the 13th and FINAL state required to ratify the above article of amendment to the Constitution For The United States, thus making it the Law Of The Land.
The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia (1819), cover page
The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia (1819), page 30
As you can see in the following image of the Laws of the State of Missouri (1825), which was not even a State when the original 13th Amendment was ratified, the Titles of Nobility Amendment appears there as well:
Laws of the State of Missouri (1825), 13th Amendment
For more information about this subject, I would recommend that you visit
tonaonline.com where a gentleman named Stanley Evans has spent years taking a deep dive into this important subject. He presents lots evidence there that any reasonable person could only find convincing.
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