Check the vote by the Kentucky Senate. I'd say that 22-9 against the amendment was a rejection rather than an acceptance of the 16th Amendment. Check the record of the Oklahoma legislature that shows that they rejected the 16th Amendment and substituted something else. To trust the Philanderer Knox's word that states accepted the amendment verbally is to trust Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler to rule. That makes the ratification of at least 3 states null and void. I find it really objectionable for the Secretary of State to be able to declare an Amendment to the Constitution ratified without proof that it was ratified by 3/4 (36 at the time Knox declared it ratified) something that what the government wants can be declared Constitutional when what the states voted on was NOT the exact wording and punctuation of the amendment that is being declared ratified. Of course federal judges are subject to the same sort of tyrantism that most people are who seek power over the people. Nothing the legislature of the states nor Congress can be declareed passed until both houses pass exactly the same wording and punctuuation as the other. However, hypocrites that we now have ruling us make an exception to give them more power when only 4 state legislatures passed the exact wording and punctuation that was submittted to them. The courts should have struck down the 16th Amendment as soon as the record of it's ratification was presented to them but they upheld the ratification because they are tyrants in the same catagory as Marx and Hitler, scoundrels who believe hat they have some sort of superior intellect to decide how people should be ruled. Therefore the 16th Amendment should be ruled invalid by the tyrants on the Supreme Court. I may not be as courageous a man as the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were but I'll certainly risk a few years in the prisons (practically country clubs thanks to the ACLU) of this country for the cause that they risked it all for.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”I will happily be a fool who stays out of jail. Freedom is what you make of it. I accept the reality of the world I live in, legal or otherwise.
― Samuel Adams
Adams and the other 55 men who signed the Declaration of Independence put their necks in the noose to get us out from under the rule of the the tyrant, King George III, are probably rolling in their graves at the cowardie of people who now populate the land that they risked their lives to create.
We, the Tax Protesters, may not be enough now, but we are growing in number. We are not cowards like you!