PETITION OF GRIEVANCE January 21, 2025
To: President Donald J. Trump
From: Stanley Evans and Brian March
Subject: Ratification Status of the Titles of Nobility and Honor Amendment
Dear Mr. President:
This petition is entered pursuant with the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
OBJECT OF PETITION
“We the undersigned request that the United States Government fully examine and evaluate our research for the purpose of correcting a critical and gross historical error that could affect all American citizens.
We further request that upon validation of our research, the President of the United States instruct the National Archives and Records Administration to announce that the Titles of Nobility amendment was adopted as a lawful part of the Constitution on May 13, 1813”.
All records of evidence are empirical in nature being derived from the Federal Executive, congressional and Connecticut State Government documents.
SYNOPSIS
- Connecticut May-June 1813 session, the amendment is adopted and ratified. Certification of said is sent into the President, Secretary of State and US Senate with a cover letter from Governor John Cotton Smith, whereupon it was properly recorded as ratified in the rough journal of the US Senate on June 8, 1813. The Resolution read, “Resolved by this assembly, that this assembly do ratify the forgoing amendment proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States, and the same adopt on the part of this state, ratified on the part of this state”.
- Then 14 months after the fact, for reasons unknown, a new Certification from Connecticut was entered only with the Department of state declaring “Do not ratify, is not ratified”. Article V of the Constitution has no prevision for allowing a state to reverse or revoke a prior ratification of an amendment proposed by Congress.
- On January 12, 1814, the President James Madison and the Secretary of State James Monroe sent out a Circular to all the heads of Europe announcing the amendment has been adopted as a part of the Constitution based on it receiving the requisite number of state ratifications.
- An examination of the Connecticut Committee Report on the Titles of Nobility amendment reveals that the signature of Theodore Dwight, Chairman of that Committee is a forgery and thus invalidates all the redactions, changes and additions made on said report causing it to revert back to its original text, which was given to the Connecticut General Assembly at the May-June 1813 session. It appears that all the changes on this report were made around July 1814 some thirteen months after the fact. As the forged signature invalidates all the changes on the report and the Certifications on file with the NARA directly reflect these changes, these Certifications are invalid as well.
- Sometime between October 20, 1816, and May 5, 1817, the original Certification on file in the Department of State from the state of Connecticut was destroyed leaving only the illegitimate Certification on file.
- On December 2, 1817, the new President, James Monroe and the Secretary of State John Quincy Adams confirm in a letter to Charles N. Buck that the amendment had been adopted and was an operating part of the Constitution.
- As the acting Secretary of State, Richard Rush, could only find twelve state ratifications on file in May 1817, this information was disseminated and led to Congress asking the President, James Monroe, to find out how many states had ratified the amendment. In a Circular dated January 7, 1818, the Secretary of State requested legislative information from Connecticut and two other states. Connecticut responded with a copy of its illegitimate Certification and the amendment was removed from the Constitution.
- In a report to the House of Representatives from the President dated February 4, 1818, fraud was committed by omitting evidence regarding the prior actions of Connecticut and the Federal Executive branch. Federal records were changed to reflect the new status of the amendment.
We have put together a special research video for the purpose of this petition. Albeit long, it will cover every facet of events that occurred from January 1813 through February 4th, 1818, backed up by authentic certified records.
The video can be accessed at TonaOnline.com/TONA and copies of the certified records can be accessed and downloaded at TonaOnline.com. A copy of the research book can be downloaded at TonaOnline.com/BOK
It is important to understand that contemporary laws such as those regulating the NARA (38 states to ratify) and the ratification process used today do not apply in this case.
As reflected in the 1815 Laws of the United States, Congress and the executive branch were working from a resolution of Congress dated March 2nd, 1797, wherein “thus obtained” was sufficient to establish an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This simply meant that if 13 of the original 17 states in the union in 1810 ratified the amendment, it would become a part of the Constitution. Congress was well within their constitutional authority to interpret Article V in this manner given the difficulties experienced in finding out how many states had ratified the eleventh amendment.
At the very least, it appears that a high crime was committed by President James Monroe and the Governor of Connecticut, John Cotton Smith that would seem to warrant an investigation into this matter.
