Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
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The "Sixteenth amendment was not properly ratified" argument
mostly revolves around differences in punctuation and wording
...

In the case of the Sixteenth amenment, those inconsistencies
were so trivial as to not allow for any inconsistency in
interpretation,
indeed, we have no way of telling how precisely the words spoken
on the floor of those legislative bodies agreed...

The Sixteenth Amendment is not part of the Bill of Rights.

Nor is it part of the Magna Carta. So?

As you wil recall, my point is that if one accepts the "Sixteenth
Amendment was not properly ratified" argument then consistency
demands that you also accept that the Bill of Rights was not
properly ratified.




However, even accepting that, the Bill of Rights was exceptional.

The Bill of Rights passed by the Congress and submitted to the
States for ratification was not a bill of ten amendments, it was
one (1) amendment with twelve (12) articles. That amendment
was never ratified by the requisite number of states. Some
states ratified a shorter version, with only ten articles. That
shorter version was accepted and became part of the CUSA.

That Bill of Rights, with ten articles was not passed by the
Congress, and then ratified requisite number of states.
The alleged errors that supposedly invalidate the passage of the
SIxteenth Amendment pale by comparison.

The people who argue the sixteenth amendment was invalid,
(and I note that you are not he person who introduced that
notion into this thread) by and large, refuse to discuss this
as they are not honest people.

Later when more amendments passed the enumeration was
changed so that the ten articles of the first amendment became
the first ten amendments. That change was also made without
ratification by the states, and although it plainly has no bearing
on the validity of those or subsequent amendments that change
still looms large when compared with the arguments advanced
against the validity of the sixteenth amendment.


Twelve articles of amendment were sent to the states, ten were ratified in
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.

Not quite true, the twelve articlees were all part of ONE amendment.
They were not passed separatly and sent to the states as separate
amendments.

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FF