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Constitutional Amendment.
Joint Resolution,

Joint Resolutions,
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CoNsTiTU-
T1oN OF THE UNITED STATES.
ResoEyea bu the Senate and House Of representa-
tiUes the United States Of america M congress as
se1bled (two-thirds of both Houses concurrlng,)
That the following article be proposed TO the
legislatures of the several States, as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
which, when ratified by three-fourths of said leg
islatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitu-
ton, namely:
SECTION l. All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the Jursdlctlon
thereof are citizens OF 'ne 6teN state shall
make or enforce any law which shall abrldge the
privileges or immunities of citizens OF the United
States; shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property without due process
of law, deny to any person within its Jurls-
dictior, the equal protection of the laws.
SEC 2 REPRESENTATIVES shall be apportloned
among the several States according to their re-
spective nu nbers counting the whole numper
of persons in each State, excluding Indians not
taxed But when the right to vote at any elec-
tion for the choice of electors for President and
Vice President of the United States, representa-
tves in Congress, the executive and judicial OH
GERS of State, or the members OF the leglSlat
thereof is denied to any of the male Inhabitants
Of such State, being twenty-one years OF age
and citizens of the United States, or In any way
abridged except for participation 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 such State.
SEC ). No person shall be Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress, elector of President and
Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or mill
tary under the United States, or under any State
who having previously taken an oath as mem
Der of Congress, or as officer OF the United
States, or as a member of any State legislature
or as an executive judicial officer of any State
to support the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in Instruction or rebellion
enemies thereof. But Congress may, by vote
of tN othirds of each House, remove such dis
ability
SEC t. The validity of the public debt of the
United States, authorized by law, including debts
incurred for payment OF pensions and bountles
for services in suppressing instruction or rebel
lion shall not lie questioned But neither the
United States nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in aid OF lnsur-
rection rebellion against the United States, or
any claim for the loss or emancipation OF any
slave: but all such debts, obligations and claims
shall be held illegal and void.
SEC. 3. The Congress shall have power to EN-
force, by appropriate legislation, the provisions
of this article.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Speaker House of Rep.
LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER,
Pres Senate, pro TEN.
Attest:
EDWARD MCPHERSON,
Clerk House of Rep.
J. W. FoRNEY,
Secretary of Senate.