However it appears the copy of the US Constitution in the GBTUSA Trump Bible lacks the 11th through 27th Amendments!
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27
Why? Why those Amendments?
12th Amendment (1804):
Modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents.
13th Amendment (1865):
Except as punishment for criminal offense, forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude.
14th Amendment (1868):
Details Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Citizenship Clause, and clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.
Minnesota State University, Mankato founded in 1868, known then as Mankato Normal School
15th Amendment (1870):
Reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status.
AMENDMENTS RATIFIED IN THE 1900'S
16th Amendment (1913):
Reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income.
17th Amendment (1913):
Establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected.
18th Amendment (1919):
Denies the sale and consumption of alcohol.
19th Amendment (1920):
Reserves women's suffrage rights.
20th Amendment (1933):
Also known as the "lame duck amendment," establishes date of term starts for Congress (January 3) & the President (January 20).
21st Amendment (1933):
Details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain.
22nd Amendment (1951):
Limit the terms that an individual can be elected as president (at most two terms). Individuals who have served over two years of someone else's term may not be elected more than once.
23rd Amendment (1961):
Reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.
24th Amendment (1964):
Citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.
25th Amendment (1967):
Establishes the procedures for a successor of a President.
26th Amendment (1971):
Reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote.
27th Amendment (1992):
Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.
Does their exclusion from Trump's GBTUSA Bible mean as president dictator, Trump will do away with those amendments? How 19th Century rich white man!
The Bibles were printed in China. The leather binding isn't leather. It is some kind of leather looking synthetic plastic that cracks when bent.
Watch from 7:20 to the end.
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