The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-24

shall have formed o constitution of government
in conformity with the Constitution OF the
United States in all respects, framed BY a
convention. of delegates elected by the male
citizens ofsaid State twenty-one years old and
upward, OF whatever race, color, or previous
condition, who have been resident in said State
forone year previous to the day of such election,
except such as may be DISTINGUISHED for partic-
patton in the rebellion or for felony at common
law; and when such constitution shall provide
that the elective franchise shall be enjoyed by all
such persons as have the qualifications herein
stated for election of delegates and when SUCH
Constitution shall be ratified by majority of the
persons voting on the question of ratification who
are qualified as electors for delegates, and when
such constitution shall have been submitted to
Congress for examination and approval, and
Congress shall have approved the slime; and
when said State, by avote ofts Legislature elect
ed under said constitution shall have adopted the
amendment the Constitution of the United
and ,.nown as article A. and when said article
shall have becomes part of the Constitution OF
the United States, said State shall be declared en-
titled to representation in Congress, and Senators
and Representatives shall be admitted therefrom
on theil taking the oath prescribed by law, and
then and thereafter the proceeding sections OF
Il is act shall be imperative in said State Povi
ded That no person excluded from the privilege
of holding Office by said proposed amendment to
the Constitution OF the United States shall be
to frame constitution for any of said rebel
States, nor shall any such person vote for MEM
beers of said convention.
SEC. 6. And be- further enacted, That until
the people of said rebel States shall be, by law, ad
mitted to representation in the Congress of the
United States, any civil governments which may
exist therein shall be deemed provisional only,
and in all respects subject to the paramount au
thority of the United States at any time to abol
ish modify. control OF supersede the same (; and
in all elections to any office under such provis-
ional governments all persons shall be entitled to
vote, and none other, who are entitled to vote
under the provisions of the filth section of this
act and no person shall be eligible to any office
under any such provisional governments who
would be disqualified from holding Office under
the provisions of the third article Of said consti
tutional amendment.
Constitutional Amendment.
The following is the Constitutional Amend
ment, commonly called the Howard Amendment:
ARTICLE XIV.
Section l. All persons born or naturalized in
the United States and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof are citizens of the United States and Of
the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens OF the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty or property without due process o
ton the equal protection OF the laws.
Sec 2. Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States according to their re-
spective numbers counting the whole number of
persons iu eaci: State Excluding Indians not tax
ed. But when the right to vote at any election
for the choice of electors for President and Vice
President OF the United States, representatives in
Congress, executive and judicial officers OF State,
or the members of the Legislature thereof, is de-
MED to any OF the male inhabitants of such State
being twenty-one years of aye 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 citi
zens shall bear to the whole number OF male citi-
zens twenty one years of age in such State
Sec. 8. No person shall be Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress, or eector Of President and
Vive-President, or hold any Office civil or mill
tary, under the United States or under any State,
who, having previously taken an oath as men,
Der of Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as member of any State Legislature,
an executive or judicial officer of any State,
to support the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof But Congress may, bya vote OF
two-thirds CT each House, remove such disability
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the
| United States authorized by law, including debts
| incur ed for payment of pensions and bounties
for services in suppressing insurrection rebel
| lion, shall not be questioned. But neither the
United States nor any State shall assume or pay
| any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insur
| rection rebellion against the United States, OF
| any claim for the loss or emancipation of any
| slave; but all such debts obligations and claims
| shall be held illegal and void.
Sec 5. The Congress shall have power to ell
force by appropriate legislation the provisions o.
this article.