The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-03-08

adopted the amendment to the constitution
Of The United States proposed by the Tbir-
ty ninth Congress. and known as article 4.
and when said article shall have become a
part OF the Constitution Of the United
States, said State shall be declared entitled
to representation in Congress, and Sena-
tors and Representatives shall be admitted /
therefFom on taking the oath prescribed by
law, and then and thereafter the preceding
sections Of this act shall be imperative in
said STATE
Sec. 6. That no sentence of death under
this act shall be carried into execution
without the consent of the President.
Sec. 7. And be il further enacted. That
until the people Of said rebel States shall
by law be admitted to representation in the
Congress of the United States. the civil
governments that may exist therein shall
be deemed provisional Only, and shall be,
! in ali respects, subject to the paramount
authority Of the United States at any
time abolish, modify, control and super
sede the same and all elections to any Of
fee under such provisional governments.
/ all persons shall be entitled to vote, and
none others, who are entitled to vote under
the provisions Of the 9th section of this
act and no person shall be eligible to of
fee under such provisional governments
who would be disqualified from holding Of
flee under the provisions Of the Sd article
Of the said constitutional amendment
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The following is the constitutional
amendment" referred to in the preceding
bill:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, (two-
thirds Of both Houses conourring, That
the following article be proposed to the
several States an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which, when
ratified by three-fourths of said Legisla-
lures, shall be valid as part of the Con
stitution, namely:
/
or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi-
zens 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 immunites of citizens of the
United States. Nor shall any State deprive
any person of life, liberty. or property
/ without due process of law, nor deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection OF the law.
Sec. 2, Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according
to the respective numbers. counting the
whole number of persons in each State, ex-
Guiding Indians not taxed but whenever
the right to vote at any election for electors
Of President and Vice-President or for
United States Representative in Congress.
Executive and Judicial officers. or the mem
bers of Legislature thereof is denied to any
of the male inhabitants of such State, be-
ing twenty years Of age. and citizens
of the United States, or in any way abridg-
ed, except for participation in rebellion or
other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of male citizens shall
bear to the whole number of male citizens
twenty years of age in that State.
Sec. 3. No person shall be Senator or
Representative in Congress, elector of Pres
ident and Vice-President, or hold any Of
fee, civil or military. under the United
States, or under any State, who, having
previously taken an oath as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as member of any State Legis-
lature, or as an executive or judicial officer
of any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have engaged in
instruction or rebellion against the same
or given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof, but Congress may, by a vote OF
two-thirds of each house, remove the disa-
bility.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt
of the United States, authorized by law,
including debts incurred for the payment
of pensions and bounties for service in
suppressing instruction or rebellion, shall
not be questioned, but neither the United
States nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in aid Of
instruction for rebellion against the United
States, or claim for the loss or emancipa-
ton of ny slave, but all such debts, obi
f cations, and claims shall be held illegal
aud void.
Sec. 3. The Congress shall have power
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