The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-07
CONGRESSIONAL AMEND

MENT.
Article l4-SeCtiOn l. All
persons born or natura-
lized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdic-
tiOn thereof, are citizens of
the United States, and OF
the STATE wherein they re-
side, 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 of law, nor deny
To any person within its
jurisdiction the equal pro-
lection OF the laws.
section 2. Representa-
tives shall be apportiOned
among the several States
according to their respec-
tive numbers, counting
the whole number of per
sons in each state eX-
Cluding Indians not
taxed. But when the
right to vote at any elec.
tiUn for the choice of cleo
tors for Presidentand Vice
President of the United
States, Representatives in
Congress, the executive
and judicial officers OF a
State, or the members of
the Legislature thereof, is
denied to any of the male
Inhabitants of such State,
being tweuty-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 num-
Der of such male citizens
shall bear TO the whole
number of male citizens
twenty-one years OF age in
such state.
Section 3. No person
shall be a Senator OF Rep
reSentatiYe IN Congress,
or electOr of President and
Vice President, or hold
any Office, civil or military,
under the United States,
or under any state, who,
having previously taken
AN oath, as a member ol
Congress, or rs an officer
Of the United States, or as
a member of any State
Legis lature, or as am exc
cutive or judicial officer OF
any state, to support the
Constitution of the United
states, shall have engaged
IN insurTectiOu or rebellion
against the same, or given
ald or comfort TO the enc,
mics thereof. But Congress
may, by "a vote OF TWO
I thirus OF each House, re
move such disability.
section 4, The validity OF
the public debt of tht
| United states, authorized
by law, including debts in
Cured for payment of pen
siOns aud bOunties. for ser
vices In suppressing insur
reCtiOn and rebellion, shal
not be questioned. Blu
neither the United State
nor any State shall ASSUME
on pay any debt OF obliga
ton incurred in aid of In
surreCtiOn or rebellion
against the United States
or any claim for the loss o
emancipation OF any slave
but all such debt, obliga
tions or claims shall be hel
illegal and void.
section o. The Congress
shall have power TO en-
force, by appropriate legs
lation, the provisions G
this article,
At the first glance
with the wonderful gen
these two plans, and
why should there be
tween the President
compromise proposed
stantially the plan of c
nation, however, Will
between the two plan
tween the genuine Bra
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poses, first, to declare
no State has a right to
1uous; that the Gene
nght TO eject a State,
deprive any State of
Senate without ITS COZ
the Constitution; or
House, which Is alre
What, then, is the mea
1t Is only a reafiirn
theory that, after wi
authority from and in
reconstructing the r,
: no right to deny the
House. 1t is the soI
stump speeches, boiled
: rejected policy.
His second propos
national debt, and all
TALLY the pending amt
in reference to citizeT
rights before the law
, is also, in substance, /