The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-05
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THE UNION REPuBLIcAS PLATFORM
Amendment OF she Consfitutt6ni Of
she United States which r assed Com
q tfress a4 itsIate session by the Con.
stItutIOnAI Majority oEiTvosThletls,,
= ana Is now Before the States for Kat
e. iHeatiOn. 49, j Is,s,5iI,iG ana siI,I
Resolved, Byth Senate and House Rep
reSantatives of the United States Of America,
in Congress assembled, two-thiEds OF both
Houses concurTing, That the following article
be proposed tn the Legislatures OF the several
States as an amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States, which, when Tatihed
by three-fourths OF the said Legislatures,
shall be valid as q part of the Constitution,
namely: if5li-.fg5,. fif.a f-l zi..'sy (
9 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. !. All persons born or
naturalized in the United states, and subject
TO the turtsdictlo thereof, are citizens Of the
United states and OF the State wherein they.
law which shall abridge the privileges or iIn-
muniGeS of the citizens OF the United States.
lie liberty or property iss Withoat due pEoces s
Of law, nor deny, 10: any. person within its
t1Eisdiction the equal protection Of the laws.
SECTION 2. Representa- dves shall be appor-
toned among the several States according to
their respective numbers, counting the whole
Indians not taxed: but Whenever the right to
vote at any election for electors of President
and Vice President, or for United States Rep
cial officers, or the members of the Legfsla-
ture thereof Is denied to any OF the male
lnnADltauLS OIBuen Stalk4t pelll& IMenGYsOn6
years or age, and citizens Of the United States,
or in any way abridged, except for particlpa-
ton in rebellion or other crime, the basis OF
representation therein shall be reduced In
the proportion which the number OF such
male citizens shall bear to the, whole number
Of male citizens twenty-one years of age, in
thnt State. - sA, 20
SECTION 8. No person shall be n Senator or
Representatives in Congress, elector of Pre8l-
dentor Vice President, or hold any office,
civil or military, under the United States, or
under any state who, having previously ta-
ken an oath as member of Congress, or asa
memberof any State Legislature, or as an ex-
ecutive or judicial Qfhcer of any State, to
support the Constitutio OF the United States,
shall have engaged in insurTectiOu or rebel
Hon against the same OF given aid and COM
fort to the enemies thereof; hut Congress
may, by a vote OF two-thirdH OF each House
remove such disability. -.-' : -sttit+b1yt
SECTION 4. The validity of the public debt
OF the United States authorized by law, in
Guiding debts Incurred for the payment of
pensions and bounties for services In sup
pressing insurrectlon or rebellion, shall not
be questiOneds but neither the United States
nor any State shall assume or pay any debt
or obi legation incurred In aid of inSurTection
or rebellion against the United States, or any
claim for the loss or emancipation or any
slave, but oil such debts, obliga tEons, and
claims snail be held illegal and void. .''
SEQ 8. The Congress shall have power to
enforce by appropriate legislation the pro-
visions Of thlsRrticle. -..'..i7 .'....i-