With President’s Day Monday, many groups are taking a look at America’s history, acknowledging the good, bad, and ugly of where the country was then and where it is today.
That was the discussion at Monday night’s Bedford County Republican Party meeting, which hosted Paul Engel as their guest speaker.
A self-proclaimed “Constitution scholar,” Engel is the founder of the Constitution Study. It’s a program that essentially studies the U.S. Constitution as one would study the Bible—in short segments with guided questions.
Engel quoted John Jay— first chief justice of the United States and a contributor to the Federalist Papers—who said, “Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution of his country and teach the rising generation to be free.”
Why do we not recognizes that the 13th Amendment was defining what a Free Person was in America? Then they Change “Free Persons” to just “Persons” in the 14th Amendment. I understand the debate on the 13th went but how is the 13th apply only to Slaves but not a Person who had committed a Crime in America? SO if Persons are Naturalized in the United States then how are Citizens Naturalized in the United States? Which I have been finding out that the 14th Amendment section 1 is a Title of Nobility Clause( a Title above a Person who can Governor) who are the Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside, because the Citizens of the State, we the People of the United States have the Right to Form a Republican Form of Government a Government form by the Electors of the State Legislature which are the People of the Several States, a Branch that our Founders Created to allow the average Voter to be the Official Elector of this Government. Article 1 section 2. And if you question me just read #57 of the Federalist Papers and Madison will tell you in his own words. The Electors of the corresponding Branches of the State and not just the President of the United States. So would we, as the Official Electors of this Government be subject to the Jurisdiction thereof? OH and you can compare what I say by just Reading the word “Free” in the 1828 Webster Dictionary. I cannot make this up. To ignore the 13th and the 14th today is a Lost of who will be Subject to the Tax Legislation that Congress LAID directly on the People of the United States and who Congress can only Provide for and that is We the People of the United States and not All Persons born or Naturalized in the United States. Because the Laws of the United States are the Laws of the Land and if we are the Subject of this Law then we are subject to the Jurisdiction thereof. God Bless America.
I would say “we” don’t recognize that the Thirteenth Amendment was defining what a Free Person is because it doesn’t. In fact either of the words “Free” or “Person” are even the text of the amendment. What the amendment clearly does is prohibit slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, in the United States. In the Thirteenth Amendment the difference is not between slave and criminal but between indentured servant and a convicted criminal. And that difference is Due Process. There’s a difference between being made a servant and suffering a punishment after being convicted of a crime.
The Fourteenth Amendment did not “change” free person to person. In fact, the only place in the Constitution you find the term “Free persons” is in the original Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, which was repealed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Your question about naturalization seems to be based on a flawed understanding of the term “citizen”. While all citizens are persons, not all persons are citizens. When a person is naturalized, they become a citizen.
You comment about a supposed title of nobility, along with your understanding of a republican form of government is completely illogical. I suggest you read my article on the subject, https://constitutionstudy.com/2022/02/28/306-republican-form-of-government/