The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-09
Constitutional Amendment


:, The following is the Constitutional Amend
ment, commonly called the Howard Amendment
ARTICLE XIV. .
Section l. All persons born or naturalizcd in
tile 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 abridre the
privileges or immunties of citizens of the Unit ed
States nor shall any State deprive any person OF
life, liberty or property without due process OF
law, nor deny to any persearwithn its iurisdic-
| ion the equal protection ofthe laws.
| Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned
| among the several States according to their re-
| spcctive numbers. counting, the whole number of
persons in each State excluding Indians not tax
ed. But when the right u vote at any election
for the choice of electors for President ana Vice
President OF the United States, representatives in
Congress- executive and judicial officers ofa 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 age and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged except for
participation in rebellion other crime the basis
of representation therein shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male citi
Zcns shall bear to the whole number OF male citi-
zens twenty one years of age in such State.
Sec: .. no person shall De q senator or Repre-,
Viye-President, or hold any office civil or mill
tary under the United States or under any State
who, having previously taken oath as a mem
Der of Congress, or an officer OF the United
States, or as member of any State Legislature
or as an executive or judicial officer of any State
States.
shall have engaged in insurrccton or rebellion
against the same given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of
two thirds of each House, remove such disability
Sec. a. The validity of the public debt of the
United States authorized by law, including debts
incurred for payment of pensions and bOunties
for services in suppressing Instruction or 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 insuf.
recton or rebellion against the United States or
any claim for the loss or eInan cpatioli of any
slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims.
shall be held Illegal and void ...l.rSt ri -.
Sec s. The Congress shall have power to en-
force by appropriate legislation the provisions OF
this article. " f't'''' = .-' %.
An Act to Prescribe an Oath of Office
and for Other Purposes. g.
The following is the oath Csiron- clad ~ of O
fee referred to in the Reconstruction and Sup
Elementary Acts. E.a .-iaeh H..- sTo1t
= Be Henacted, That hereafter any person elected
or appointed to any office of hohor or profit I'M
der the government OF the United States, either
in the civil, military or naval department of the
public service, except the President of the Unit
ed States, shall before entering upon the duties
of such Office, and before being entitled to any of
the salary or other emoluments thereof take and
subscribe the following oath or affirmation: =
A. b, do sOlemnly swear Cor afhrm) tnat nave
never voluntarily borne arms against the Unted
States since nave Decn q clClZci luaG
have. voItl1 tarily given aid countenance, coun-
sci or encouragement to persons engaged in
armed hostility thereto that have never sought
nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the func-
tons of any office whatever, under any authority
or pretended authority, in hostility to the United
States that have not yielded a voluntary sup
port to any pretended government, power or con-
stitution within the United States, hostile or in
incal thereto ); and do further swear (or affirm)
that to the best Of my knowledge and ability, /
Will support and defend the constitution of the
United States against all enemies foreign and do
mestici that will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that I take this obligation freely
without any meatal reservation or, purpose Of
evasion, and that will well and faithfully dis
eharge. the duties of the office on which am
about to enter. So help me God" which oath,
go taken and signed, shall be preserved among
the files of the Court Houses of Congress or the
department to which said officer may appertain
And any person who may falsely take said oath
shall be guiltyof perjury and on conviction, in
addition to the penalties now prescribed for that
offence, shall be deprived Of his office, and rem
fered forever incapable after, of holding any Of
dee err place under the United States. (
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