Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
THE HOWARD AMENDMENT.

The followingis the proposed Amendment tothe
Constitution of the United States which the Re-
construction Act requires the Southern States to
adopt by their Legislatures:
Resolved 6y the Senate and House of Represen-
tattues of the United States of America IN Con-
gress assembled, (two-thirds of both Houses con-
curring.) That the following article be proposed
to the Legislatures of the several States as an a
mendment to the Constitution of the United States
which, when ratified by three fourths of said Leg
isatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution,
namely:
ARTICLE H.
Section /. All persons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the jurisdiction there
Of, 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 priv,
leges or immunities of citizens Of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without the process Of
law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.
Sec. g. Representatives shall be apportioned a.
mong the several States according to their respect
i've numbers, counting the whole number of per-
sons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.
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,
the Executive and Judicial officers of State, or
the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied
to any one of the male inhabitants of such State,
being twentyone years of age, and citizens Of the
United States, or in any way abridged, except tor
participation in nrebelon or other crime the basis OF
representation therein shall be reduced in the pro-
portion which the number of such male citizens
shall bear to the whole number OF male citizens
twenty-one years of age in such State.
Sec 8. No person shall be Senator or Repre-
sentative 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 member OF
Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or
as member of any State Legislature or as an ex-
executive or judicial officer of any State, to sup.
port 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 of each House, remove such disability.
Sec. f. The validity of the public debt of the
United States, authorized by law, including debts
incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties
for services in suppressing nsurection 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 insurrection or re-
belon against the United States, or any claim for
the loss or emancipation OF any save but all such
debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal
and void
Sec. S. The Congress shall have power to en-.
force, by appropriate legislation, the provisions Of
this article