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Good News Broadcast Number 010 – <strong>TIME</strong> <strong>EXPIRED</strong> – THE BIGGEST MOMENT IN HISTORYmodify or, even more unlikely, to repeal these laws. <strong>The</strong> American public needs to be apprised thatanother alternative exists, and that it is entirely possible to challenge the very foundation of thistax<strong>in</strong>g power upon the grounds that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was neveradopted. This challenge can be effectively made by exercis<strong>in</strong>g your rights under the FirstAmendment to the United States Constitution.DISCOVERY RESULTSArticle V of the U.S. Constitution specifies the ratification process, and requires 3/4 of the States toratify any amendment proposed by Congress. <strong>The</strong>re were 48 States <strong>in</strong> the American Union <strong>in</strong> 1913,mean<strong>in</strong>g that affirmative action of 36 states was required for ratification. In February, 1913,Secretary of State Philander Knox issued a proclamation claim<strong>in</strong>g that 38 states had ratified theamendment.In 1984, when William J. Benson began a research project, never before performed, to <strong>in</strong>vestigatethe process of ratification of the 16th Amendment. After travel<strong>in</strong>g to the capitols of the NewEngland states, and review<strong>in</strong>g the journals of the state legislative bodies, he saw that many stateshad not ratified the Amendment. Cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g his research at the National Archives <strong>in</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton,DC, Bill Benson discovered his Golden Key. This damn<strong>in</strong>g piece of evidence is a 16 pagememorandum from the Solicitor of the Department of State, whose duty is the provision of legalop<strong>in</strong>ions for the use of the Secretary of State. In this memorandum sent to the Secretary of State, theSolicitor of the Department of State lists the many errors he found <strong>in</strong> the ratification process!<strong>The</strong> 4 states listed below are among the 38 states that Philander Knox claimed ratification from.• <strong>The</strong> Kentucky Senate voted upon the resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 <strong>in</strong> favor and 22opposed.• <strong>The</strong> Oklahoma Senate amended the language of the 16th Amendment to have a preciselyopposite mean<strong>in</strong>g.• <strong>The</strong> California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt theamendment proposed by Congress.• <strong>The</strong> State of M<strong>in</strong>nesota sent noth<strong>in</strong>g to the Secretary of State <strong>in</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton.When his year long project was f<strong>in</strong>ished at the end of 1984, Bill had visited every state capitol andknew that not a s<strong>in</strong>gle state had actually and legally ratified the proposal to amend theConstitution. 33 states engaged <strong>in</strong> the unauthorized activity of amend<strong>in</strong>g the language of theamendment proposed by congress, a power the states do not possess. S<strong>in</strong>ce 36 states were neededfor ratification, the failure of 13 to ratify would be fatal to the amendment, and this occurs with<strong>in</strong>the major (first three) defects tabulated <strong>in</strong> Defects <strong>in</strong> Ratification of the 16th Amendment. Even ifwe were to ignore defects of spell<strong>in</strong>g, capitalization, and punctuation, we would still have only 2states which successfully ratified.Written By Floyd E. Taylor Page 171

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