The Law That Never Was
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The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was never ratified by a majority of the sovereign States. This is the Amendment that allegedly entitled the Federal Agent (government) in the federal territory of Washington, D.C. and their private collection company, the IRS, to collect "income tax" was falsely declared to be ratified in February 1913 by Secretary of State Philander Knox. After an exhaustive year long search of legislative records in 48 sovereign states (Alaska & Hawaii were not admitted into the Union until after 1913), Bill Benson wrote his fact findings in The Law That Never Was, Vols. 1 & 2. He was able to unequivocally prove that the 16th Amendment was never Constitutionally, properly, or legally ratified. The only record of the 16th Amendment having been confirmed was a proclamation made by the Secretary of State Philander Knox on February 25, 1913, wherein he simply declared it to be "in effect", but never stating it was lawfully ratified. Even
if the 16th Amendment were properly ratified, according to
Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, it has always been
unconstitutional for the U.S. Federal Government to directly
tax We the People in their property, wages,
salaries, or earnings. The judges of the U.S. Supreme Court
rejected any claims that the 16th Amendment changed the
constitutional limits on direct taxes in
Brushaber
v. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1,
when they ruled that it
"created no new
power of taxation" and that it "did not change the
constitutional limitations which forbid any direct taxation
of
individuals". According to the investigations of Bill Benson and others, the following defects were found in the ratification of the Income Tax Amendment by the 48 states then existing, three-fourths or 36 of which were needed to ratify it:
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