Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! Do I have a FANTASTIC topic for your next Teabagger rally:
Iowa GOP jumps on the ‘Thirteenther’ bandwagon
A provision in the Republican Party of Iowa’s platform calling for the “reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution got some national attention this week, with the party’s spokesman admitting the plank is focused solely on Barack Obama.
The current 13th amendment bans slavery, and Iowa Republicans are not in favor of its repeal. They are, however, interested in reintroducing an amendment originally put before the states for ratification back in 1810. It outlawed any person who accepts a “title of nobility” from a foreign country from ever holding political office.
Does that bring to mind a certain President who flew to Sweden to accept a Nobel Peace Prize that he didn’t earn? Hmmmm? (oh, wait . . . it already said it was about Obama? That just blows my suspense buildin’ all to heck!)
I know it’s confusing (well . . . it is to me), so let me help ya out a bit. Instead of activist congresses bannin’ slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment, here is what the real Thirteenth Amendment, known as the Titles of Nobility Amendment (or TONA) was meant to say way back in 1810 already:
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.
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