Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States .
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race , color, or previous condition of servitude . The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are referred to as the Reconstruction amendments because they resulted from the Civil War. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex . The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age . Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 20 February 1997.