Dear Friends, Patriots, et al. --

The Speaker of the General Assembly in South Carolina is:

David H. Wilkins

http://www.scstatehouse.net/

http://www.scstatehouse.net/hdist21.htm

The President pro tempore of the State Senate is:

John Drummond

http://www.scstatehouse.net/sdist10.htm

The Clerk and Director of Senate Research is:

Frank Caggiano

http://www.scstatehouse.net/sclrk.htm

Furthermore, this item appears in Rule 33 of the South Carolina Senate:

"A motion to lay an amendment on the table being agreed to shall not have the effect of disposing of the main question."

This refers to the normal business of the Senate, but it clearly indicates that the actions of 1814, in laying the pending question on the table, did not dispose of the main question, that is, the approval of the State Senate and its recommendation to the House that the original Thirteenth be approved by that body (as I read their Rules).

South Carolina remains the most committed of all States to the sovereignty of their legislative bodies: furthermore, the research conducted by members of the TONA Research Committee does not have a partisan tone to it and does not seek to advantage one team against another team, but only to get at the truth of this matter and to know what happened, when and why the article was suppressed, and what proper procedures may be undertaken now.

The following telephone numbers connect to the South Carolina State House:

803-734-3143 (reception and switchboard, I believe)

803-734-3138

803-734-3125

I have not yet obtained a fax number for either the Speaker of the Assembly or the Clerk of the Senate, but there surely must be numbers for them.

I am familiar with Gerry Spence but I have not read his book.

We are presently indentured servants and federal subjects, not knowing that we also concurrently possess our sovereign State citizenship and all of the rights attendant upon that condition, and we are entangled in a web of "federal benefits" which gives power to the federal zones as described by the Zip Code and by the original military district designations of the First Congress, and as amended and augmented with Executive Orders.

Apparently, having agreed to participate in Social Security, we are all subject to the legislative commands of the federal Congress as if we were all federal employees, as well: that idea is in dispute around the country by minds far greater than mine.

It seems to be the linch-pin, however, of what makes the income tax apply to us all, individually, whether as federal or corporate persons subject to the decision-making process of Courts in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, or as State citizens who are participating and receiving benefits in the federal system as constructed on the legal precedents which all stem from the fraudulent Fourteenth Amendment.

A conservative scholar of the Constitution once told me that all that is required to disable the Fourteenth Amendment is a vote of the House to amend its minutes from the Thirty-ninth Congress, as the ratification process was both badly flawed and incomplete.

That is another argument entirely: recognizing the prior standing of the original Thirteenth Amendment cancels and obviates the whole concept of dual status citizenship, State vs. federal, as the language of the article clearly grants Congress the power to regulate citizenship and to cancel both "octaves" of this unitary definition. A person is a citizen by virtue of their residency -- their habitation -- in their State, a condition made possible either by birth or by naturalization.

The founding fathers stipulated that the President be native-born and that members of the Senate must be "inhabitants" of their States, and that a term of residency must be observed for both.

Since voting was considered to be a privilege obtained by having citizenship and by demonstrating, in a positive way, the ability to be a contributing member of the community; and since the elections for the State legislatures at that time determined both the make-up of the U.S. Senate, and many of the Electors chosen when the presidency was at stake, the original Thirteenth is definitely a "controlling legal authority" for campaign finance laws and regulations, and a guarantee of free, fair elections.

This is the line of attack to take, in my humble opinion.

: ===============================================================
: The Original Thirteenth Article of Amendment
: To The Constitution For The United States

: http://www.amendment13-org

: "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim,
: receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or
: shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain
: any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind
: whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power,
: such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United
: States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of
: trust or profit under them, or either of them."
: [Journal of the Senate]

: =================================

: On March 12, 1819 the State of Virginia, with the enactment
: and publication of the laws of Virginia, became the 13th
: and FINAL state required to ratify the above article of
: amendment to the Constitution For The United States, thus
: making it the Law Of The Land. With the enactment of Act
: No. 280, March 12, 1819, which was Voted, En Bloc, and
: publication of the Revised Code, the State of Virginia
: notified the Department of State, the Congress, the Library
: of Congress, and the President of their action by issuing
: to each a copy of the Laws of Virginia. [See VA 1819
: Images]

: This Article of Amendment added an enforceable strict penalty,
: i.e., inability to hold office and loss of citizenship, for
: violations of the already existing constitutional
: prohibition in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 on titles of
: nobility and other conflicts of citizenship interest, such
: as accepting emoluments of any kind for services or favors
: rendered or to be rendered, and is particularly applicable
: today in the 21st Century as government is increasingly FOR
: SALE to the highest bidder, as foreign and multinational
: corporations and individuals compete to line the pockets of
: politicians and political parties to accommodate and
: purchase protection or privilege, i.e. honors, for their
: special interests.

: In terms familiar to the common man, this might quite properly
: be called the use of bribes and graft by individuals and
: powers foreign, i.e. external, to the Congress of the
: United States to subvert the constitutional process and
: suborn our political system and the interests of WE THE
: PEOPLE.

: After appearing in numerous official publications until 1876,
: this Article "disappeared" from our Constitution,
: to be replaced by another made nearly 50 years later. You
: may well ask how such a thing could have happened. So did
: we.

: The disappearance of the original 13th Amendment to the
: Constitution of the United States has been under
: investigation by independent modern researchers during the
: past seventeen years. We've learned a lot.

: We now know that the original 13th Amendment was, and still
: is, the Law Of The Land.

: The law is still there, waiting only to be publicly recognized
: and enforced once again to protect the Sovereignty and
: Interests of WE THE PEOPLE, and to force the elected
: representatives of the people to adhere strictly to their
: solemn and binding Oath of Office and the limitations of
: government imposed by the Constitution.

: This site is brought to you directly by the primary
: researchers themselves, functioning as the TONA Research
: Committee. We are dedicated to continuing this research,
: and to placing all the facts and news on this important
: subject before the public.

: The TONA Research Committee hopes that the hard and sometimes
: tedious work of the committee and the personal sacrifice of
: time and money involved over the past 17 years will have a
: positive effect for you and our nation.