The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-04
Constitutional Amendment.


The following is the Constitutional Amend
ment, commonly called the Howard Amendment:
ARTICLE NV.
! Section l. All persons born or Eaturalizcd 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 immunites of citizens of tine United
States; shall any State deprive any person of
| life, liberty or property without due process OF
! law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdic
| ion the equal protection of the laws.
| Sec. :. Representatives shall be apportioned
| among the several States according TO their re-
/ spectve numbers, counting the whole number OF
! persons in each 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 ola State
orthe members of the Legislature thereof, is de-
MED to any of the male inhabitants of such State
being twenty-onc years OF age and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged except for
participation i'll rebellion or 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-
zcns twenty one years of age i'm such State.
Sec. g. No person shall be Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress- or electoS Of President and
VivePresdent, or hold any Office civil mill
tary under the United States or under any State
who having previously taken an oath as a mem.
Der of Congress, as officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State Legislature,
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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, by a 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
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 paw
apy debt or obligation incurred in aid of insur-
n r. rebellion AGAINST the TTnifad ofa
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 of
this article.
An Act to Prescribe an Oath of Office
and for Other Purposes.
The following is the oath (''iron- clad of of
flee referred to in the Reconstruction and Sup
Elementary Acts:
Be itenacted, That hereafter any person elected
or appointed to any office OF honor 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 other emoluments thereof, take and
subscribe the following oath affirmation: 81
A. B. do solemnly swear Cor afirm) that have
never voluntarily borne arms against the United
States since have been q citizen thereof; that l
have voluntarily given no aid, countenanee, coun-
sci or encouragement to persons engaged in
armed hostility thereto; that have never sought
nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the func
tions 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
imical thereto; and I do further swear Tor affirm
that to the best of my knowledge and ability, I
will support and defend the constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and do
nestle; that will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that l take this obligation freely.
without any mental reservation or purpose OF
evasion, and that will well and faithfully dis
charge the duties of the Office on which am
about to enter. So help me Cod" which oath,
80 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 guilty of perjury, and on conviction, in
addition to the penalties now prescribed for that
ohenee, shall be deprived of his office, and rem
dered forever incapable after, of holding any of.
fee or place under the United States. ~
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