To create the present oligarchy (rule by lawyers) which we now endure, the lawyers first had to remove the 13th titles of nobility Amendment that might otherwise have kept them in check. In fact, it was not until after the disappearance of this 13th Amendment, that American bar associations began to appear and exercise political power.
Since the unlawful deletion of the 13th Amendment, the newly developing bar associations began working diligently to create a system wherein lawyers took on a title of privilege and nobility as "Esquires" and received the "honor" of offices and positions (like district attorney or judge) that only lawyers may now hold. By virtue of these "titles," "honors," and special privileges, lawyers have assumed political and economic advantages over the majority of U.S. citizens. Through these privileges, they have nearly established a two-tiered citizenship in this nation where a majority may vote, but only a minority (lawyers) may run for certain key political offices. This two-tiered citizenship is clearly contrary to Americans' political interests, the nation's economic welfare, and the Constitution's egalitarian spirit.
Since the Amendment was never lawfully nullified, it is still in full force and effect and is the Law of the Land. If public support could be awakened, this missing Amendment might provide a legal basis to challenge many existing laws and court decisions previously made by lawyers who were unconstitutionally elected or appointed to their positions of power, it might even mean the removal of lawyers from our current government system.
At the very least, this missing - or corruptly covered up in an attempt to nullify it by hiding it, but now found and to be held forth once again in its proper place - 13th Amendment, demonstrates that two centuries ago, lawyers, particularly those who were members of the bar, were recognized as enemies of the people and nation. Some things never change.
In 1788, Thomas Jefferson proposed that we have a Declaration of Rights similar to Virginia's. Three of his suggestions were "freedom of commerce against monopolies," "trial by jury in all cases" and "no suspensions of the habeas corpus."
Yet, the denial of trial by jury is now commonplace in our courts, and habeas corpus, for crimes against the state, suspended. (By crimes against the state, reference is made to political crimes where there is no injured party and the corpus delicti [evidence] is equally imaginary.)
The authority to create monopolies was judge-made law, established by Supreme Court John Marshall after his famous seizure of power for the supreme Court in 1803; a man who Lysander Spooner (an 1850's lawyer, no less) proclaimed John Marshall to be the most evil man in the history of American politics. He was very probably right.
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The True 13th Amendment would have restricted at least some lawyers (members of the bar) from serving in government in any capacity whatsoever, and would prohibit legislatures, or even the non-bar lawyers able to serve therein, from passing any special interest legislation, tax breaks, or special immunities for anyone (even judges), not even for themselves ("honors").
Since 1983, researchers, working together and separately, have uncovered evidence that (1) the 13 Amendment prohibiting "titles of nobility" and "honors" appeared in at least 30 editions of the Constitution of the United States which were printed by at least 14 states or territories between 1819 and 1867, and (2) This amendment quietly disappeared from the Constitution near the end of the Civil War, and bar associations sprang up in the wake of its disappearance.
ONLY TWO POSSIBILITIES EXIST
Unless we think it conceivable to believe that everyone who participated in the publishing of this Amendment for all of those years, in all of those states and territories, in all of those publications, were simply but clowns and fools, with nothing better to do with their time and money, since printing and publishing does cost a certain amount of money, then there can be only one true answer: We DO have a 13th Amendment which was targeted at forbidding some, if not all, lawyers (members of the Bar), under extreme penalty, the loss of citizenship, from holding any public office, particularly if they had received and maintained, a title of nobility, in any government whatever within the "United States, or either of them."