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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Fraud at last!
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 22:44:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 22:44:32 1985
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> 	     Came the day of the trial, Ms Furgeson and Mr. Beckman introduced
> 	over fifteen thousand pages of evidence in the form of certified copies 
> 	of extracts from the journals of forty-seven state legislatures and
> 	the Territory of Ohio, and extensive federal documents, including a
> 	thirteen-page letter sent to the president by the Secretary of State.
> 	This documentation proved beyond any doubt that the Sixteenth Amend-
> 	ment and every law passed pursuant thereto, is a complete, utter
> 	fraud perpetrated on the American People.   
> 
> 	--Don Black

I am not familiar with the case in question, but I find it interesting to
note that there never has been a political entity called the Territory
of Ohio.  The State of Ohio was formed out of the Northwest Territory
in 1803, 110 years before the ratification of the sixteenth ammendment.

						Baba