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When Congress sent the 12 items in the bill of rights to the states they also included a Preamble. The states ratified ten of these amendments and they are collectively known as The Bill of Rights.
Does anyone have verifiable evidence to submit that the Preamble was voted on by the needed number of states and is an official part of the Constitution of the USA and not just an interesting historical anecdote?
The key words here are VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE that the Preamble was RATIFIED by the needed number of states. I am not asking for evidence that the Preamble existed. That is not in dispute. I am NOT asking for evidence it was sent to the States. That is not in dispute. I am asking for verifiable evidence that it was ratified by the needed number of states to become part of the Constitution. That is what the central question here is.
Article V of the US Constitution
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Does anyone have verifiable evidence to submit that the Preamble was voted on by the needed number of states and is an official part of the Constitution of the USA and not just an interesting historical anecdote?
The key words here are VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE that the Preamble was RATIFIED by the needed number of states. I am not asking for evidence that the Preamble existed. That is not in dispute. I am NOT asking for evidence it was sent to the States. That is not in dispute. I am asking for verifiable evidence that it was ratified by the needed number of states to become part of the Constitution. That is what the central question here is.
Article V of the US Constitution
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
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