Notwithstanding that detail, the idea of a stealth Constitutional amendment has gained traction on the far-right. It began in the early 1990s, when a publication called AntiShyster which is what it sounds like alleged that the original 13th Amendment was, in fact, on the books, and that it barred lawyers from holding office. As this 1999 article in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal documents, the “thirteenther” conspiracy has since been embraced by anti-government extremists who have alleged that the secret amendment gives them cover to kill police officers.