There are 33 amendments presented by Congress of which six have failed ratification by the mandatory three-quarters of state senates and four are officially still awaiting decision before state politicians. Since the Eighteenth Amendment, every amendment introduced, except the Nineteenth Amendment and the still unresolved Child Labor Amendment of 1924, has a defined time limit for ratification. There is a mystery in the very first Thirteenth Amendment, the Peerage Amendment introduced in 1810, which would have eliminated the citizenship of any American who acquired a peerage or honorific from any foreign power or otherwise, the mystery is whether this amendment was ratified and was illegally removed from the Constitution (Mount, 2010). The questions are what happened to this amendment, where did it end up, and whether this amendment was actually ratified. Theories that seek to answer these questions are that the Peerage Amendment was not ratified and was misprinted for approximately fifty years or it may have been ratified and then illegitimately eradicated from the Constitution. Those who say that if the Peerage Amendment were ratified, most congressmen who are lawyers and have the title of Esquire would lose their citizenship and no longer work in Congress. The lost 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution is written exactly like this: “If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or hold any title of nobility or honor, or without the consent of Congress, accept and hold any gift, pension , office or emolument of any kind, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen... middle of paper... more or less the recruitment of American officials and populations by foreign countries with honors. Nowadays these concerns seem implausible, but at the time there was a real and substantial concern that America would be disintegrated from within through covert betrayal and insurrection by European influences wishing to rebuild their superiority in the Americas (Hart, 2010). Although widely misinterpreted, the mysterious First Thirteenth Amendment, the Peerage Amendment, would have cleared the citizenship of any American holding a title of nobility or honor from any influence foreign or otherwise, including lawyers, however it never got as far as the Constitution. . Today the Quasi-Amendment is an inspiring part of times gone by in America and is the single most fascinating amendment to the Constitution..