We have a quite the serious Constitutional quagmire here. 20th Amendment states that:
and the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin [...]
Riddle me this....
How are purported House members-elect lawfully participating in House business (election of a Speaker), if they are not actually members of the House until they are sworn in, which according to House rules, cannot happen until the election of a Speaker?
Sounds like the Constitution is long overdue for an amendment to clarify this glaring oversight by the Framers.
Furthermore, if our House has been functioning in such a disfunctional, arguably unconstitutional manner, seemingly since the beginning, have we ever truly had a legitimate Congress?
Time for a new Convention of the States to settle some of these big issues.
While I don't find the "1871 incorporation" theory compelling, I do agree that everything seems to be part of a revolutionary great awakening in reforming our federal government.
It really got started after the Civil War fighting had ended ~1865ish. The "Act" in 1871 was just a formality. They actually changed the "Organic Act" several more times in the 1870s anyway. None of it matters. The fact is, the imperialists took full control of the fledgling experiment known as "United States of America" after crushing the resistance in the south.
The earlier retrocession of the part of DC west of the Potomac to Virginia, was unconstitutional and one of many dominoes in a long conspiracy to destroy the USA from within. The act of 1871 ironically ended being a good thing. That's a long discussion to be had...
What if I told you that the "international cabal", whom I term the Agents of Disunion were actually the ones responsible for instigating the rebellion of 1860, which was in fact just the final domino of a plan that had been in the works for over 50 years prior? 😉
I would agree 100% with you. My comment was intended for normies who know not of the $80Million debt owed to the City of London "Agents of Disunion" that came due in 1860 that "honest Abe (The "Attorney/Esquire" - specifically forbidden to hold office as per the original 13th amendment)" tried to get the newly joined southern states to join the "union". This what all the fighting was really about!
Oh lord, not this... I just got done wasting two days dealing with this nonsense in another thread on here. The proposed "titles qnd nobility" amendment was never ratified. Never got the approval from the States required. Granted, it had no deadline so it technically could still be ratified. Would need something like 28 more states though. As I said in that other thread, it was a bad proposal then, and a bad one now. But no, it's not the law. Never been the law. If your implication is that Abraham Lincoln, our nation's greatest president, was illegitimate because he practiced law, then this conversation won't be continuing much longer...
Lost Cause propaganda is a cancerous weapon of Democrats and the Agents of Disunion.