June 19, 1967. Page2
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE
Whereas the purported 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was never lawfully adopted in accordance with the requirements of the United States Constitution because eleven states of the Union were deprived of their equal suffrage in the Senate in violation of Article V, when eleven southern states, including Loulsiana, were excluded from deliberation and decision In the adoption of the Joint Resolution proposing said 14th Amendment; said Resolution was not presented to the President of the United States in order that the same should take effect, as required by Article 1, Section
7; the proposed amendment was not ratified by three-fourths of the states, but to the contrary flfteen states of the then thirty-seven states of the Union relected the proposed 14th Amendment between the dates of its submission to the states by the Secretary of State on June 16, 1866 and March 24, 1868, thereby nulllfying said Resolution and making it Impossible for ratification by the constitutionally required three-fourths of such states;