https://www.thirdamendment.com/8SCIDLJ577.pdf
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"To create the present oligarchy (rule by lawyers) which we now endure, the lawyers first had to remove the 13th 'tifles of nobility' Amendment that might otherwise have kept them in check"
Twelve states ultimately ratified TONA, not enough to make it part of the Constitution under Article V of the Constitution."' Secre- tary of State John Quincy Adams, through President James Monroe, reported to Congress in 1818 that the following actions had transpired:
Ratifications:
Maryland
Kentucky
Ohio
Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey Vermont Tennessee Georgia
North Carolina Massachusetts New Hampshire
Rejections: New York
Connecticut Rhode Island South Carolina
No Reply: 52
Virginia.
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The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution… which … 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.