I just read this article on the missing 13th Amendment:

http://www.textfiles.com/politics/13th.txt

Wow...it was really interesting. It's a long read but in the end it's really worth it. It's unbelievable to think how different everything would be if it wasn't for a single slip of damned paper.

I'll tl;dr it a bit.

There was a 13th Amendment supposedly not ratified by the required 13 states and instead only 12 ratified it but the article tells that 13 DID ratify it. Why is this amendment so important? Well **** you I'm not going to tell you everything go read it like I did.

I refuse to read it.

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I refuse to read it.

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Holy shit that's long

It seems long but I kept with it and it wasn't so bad. I thought I was only going to be able to take half of it but I read the whole thing and I'm glad I did.

halfway there and already I'm stunned as shit, I can't even begin to imagine how different things would have been

Read halfway, skimmed the middle and read the end. I'm shocked.

What's an amendemanant?

The ending is the biggest shocker where a guy actually confirms the needed 13 states did vote for it but it was just because of some slip of paper which really wasn't needed.

I'm not a yank so sum it up for me.

Eh, I'll try.

The 13th amendment prevented people with "titles of honor" from running for office or voting all together. Basically, NO ONE would have any special rights and if they did they were no longer a citizen. This pretty much means lawyers wouldn't get to run for government offices, no government official gets any special treatment that differs from a normal average citizen such as being pardoned for some crime.

The amendment that is for the people by the people where everyone is equal.

But due to some bullshit Virginia's vote supporting this amendment wasn't counted and thus it wasn't int he constitution.

Still reading. Weird as shit.

Thanks for posting.

The part that said there are hundreds of uncategorized documents in the library makes me want to go and read every single one of those uncategorized things.

yeah i've always wanted to go visit the library of congress and just browse for god knows how long.

Bring a netbook and just type everything you can in so you have some hard copy if anything were to happen to whatever document.

I really want to find a non-HTML version of this research, like, something printed in a journal or newspaper or something of the sort. This is very intriguing stuff.

It seems that this was produced in some form in 1996, which explains why I've never heard about it. I'm pretty tempted to contact David M. Dodge to see what's up. I've seen on some other sites that an official printing of the constitution with this amendment was located in Wyoming's official old documents from 1876, making it the most recent. This is so neat. I WANT MORE CURRENT INFORMATION ON THIS.