>Linwood Suggests Trump Declares Martial Law
>On Tuesday morning, Lin Wood tweeted, citing a story in which We The People Convention, in a full-page ad in the Washington Times, called on the president to enact limited martial law to hold new elections and protect our vote if lawmakers, courts, and Congress do not follow the Constitution.
1.) The state of martial law under which these three amendments to the Constitution were ratified was authorized by the First Reconstruction Act, dated March 2, 1867
2.) The Second Reconstruction Act, dated March 23, 1867, established military control over voting in the Southern states. Free elections, anyone?
3.) The Third Reconstruction Act, dated July 19, 1867, extended even greater powers to the military commanders of the Southern states. It provided that no military officer in any district shall be bound by any civil officer of the United States.
Because President Johnson opposed the four Reconstruction Acts, which were patently unconstitutional, the Radical
Republicans moved to impeach President Johnson and remove him from office.
'''It is a fact of law that legislation enacted during periods of martial law is valid only during the period for which martial law is declared and sustained. Amazingly enough, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments have never been challenged on this basic premise of law.
There are two inescapable conclusions to be drawn from this record-first, that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, which drastically changed qualifications for citizenship in the United States, voting rights, and other fundamental matters, were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and their rightful governments had been superseded by military force; and two, that legislation passed during periods of martial law effectively ends or is automatically repealed when martial law ends and the troops are withdrawn. The Reconstruction governments, which, as Collier's notes, could only be sustained by force, ended when that force was withdrawn. Thus these amendments to the Constitution have had no legal status since 1877, when President Hayes withdrew the federal troops from the Southern states. These amendments are and have been invalid since 1877. '''