Dear Sui Juris;
This may help.
http://friends-n-family-research.inf...th_Am_sham.jpg
from the Congressional Record
I ponder things like your question. And I think doing so behooves me, and increases my wealth. A good night's sleep, even in a concrete box, is always a great indicator too.
Assuming Bill Smith an advocate of Quatloos; the argument goes basically like this. Since the Senator who was proposing the Fourteenth Amendment be basically stricken from the Constitution because it was not ratified by the United States in Congress properly, was shot down. The Fourteenth Amendment stands the same today as though he never even opened his mouth. That in the mentality of Bill Smith is the measure of truth.
In my opinion the Congress in 1967 missed a wonderful opportunity to set the record straight. What is unconscionable is the lack of lost sleep.
Regards,
David Merrill.