1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress
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The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress is a law[3] enacted by the legislature of the state of Georgia declaring Georgia's legal position on the so-called 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The resolution was approved by the governor on March 8, 1957 and was added to Georgia Law in 1957[4].
The law memorialized and urged the Congress of the United States to declare "that the so-called 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States are null and void and of no effect"[5] due to subversive[6] acts in violation of the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of several states during the post-Civil War era.
Among the subversive acts noted in this law, Georgia declared that the subversive organization[7] pretending to act as Congress was unlawful, it overthrew the duly established governments of 11 states and established subversive organizations[8] that pretended to act as state governments merely to force un-Constitutional amendments upon all the states, and that the federal government cannot claim to be champions of Constitutional governments due to its failure to abide by the Constitution and its failure to protect the states from invasion.
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[edit] Notes
This Georgia law is a petition in the form of a memorial. (John Bouvier Law Dictionary: MEMORIAL - A petition or representation made by one or more individuals to a legislative or other body. When such instrument is addressed to a court, it is called a petition.[1])
For over fifty years, no contradictory response to Georgia regarding the 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress has been received by Georgia from the Congress of the United States or other government officials disproving the declarations in the 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress. Copies were transmitted to the President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress of the United States, and the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Georgia.
[edit] Effect on ratification
Judge A.H. Ellett, of the Utah Supreme Court, in Dyett v. Turner, 439 P2d 266 @ 269, 20 U2d 403 [1968], concluded:
... the States have the "textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issues" to determine the validity of the ratification votes cast on an Amendment", and ..."The authority to determine the validity of the votes cast in ratification of an Amendment are with the States..."
Judge A.H. Ellett (Dyett v. Turner, 439 P2d 266 @ 269, 20 U2d 403 [1968])[9]
[edit] Notoriety in news media
The events described in the memorial have been the subject of editorials in the Chattanooga Free Press[2] and the Chattanooga Free Press editorial by the paper's staff also contends that the U.S. government has never disproved claims that the so-called Fourteenth Amendment was un-Constitutionally enacted since they had begun their own coverage of the illegality of the purported 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Text of the Memorial
- Georgia Sedition and Subversive Activities Act
- Judge A.H. Ellett (Dyett v. Turner, 439 P2d 266 @ 269, 20 U2d 403 (1968)
- Photocopy of Chattanooga Free Press Editorial page, March 8, 1995
- OCR'd text from U.S. News & World Report, September 27, 1957, page 140 et seq.
- Legal definition of "memorial"
- Presidential Powers specifically referenced in the Constitution
