What of the original 13th amendment?? It has gone down in history to be lost, is this what the civil war was really fought over???
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept,
claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or
honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, a
ccept and retain any present, pension, office, or
emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, k
ing, prince, or foreign power, such person
shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, a
nd shall be incapable of holding any office of trus
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or profit under them, or either of them."