The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-19
Fourteemth and Fifteenth Am.nd-
nnemns.
ARTICIE NV.

Section /. All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to the juris-
diction thereof ara 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 imn3u-
mites 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 It's
jurisdiction, the equal protection Of the
laws.
Sec. q Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States, according
TO their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, ex-
GLIDING Indians not taxed. Bat when the
right 10 vote at any election, for the choice
of electors for President and ice-Presldent
of the United States, Representatives in
Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers
of State. or the members of the Legisla-
ture thereof Is denied 70 any of the male in
habitants 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 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 aye, in such State.
Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative 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 OF
Congress, or as member Of any State
Legislature, on as an Executive or Judicial
officer of any State, TO support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, shall have en-
gagged 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
such disability.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of
the United States, authorized by law. in
Guiding debts incurred for payment of PEN
sions and bounties or services in suppressing
insurEection or rebellion. shall not be ques-
toned. But neither the United States nor
any State shall assume or pay any debt or
obligation incurred in aid of Instruction or
rebellion against the United States, or any
claim for the loss or emancipation of any
slave; but all such debts, obligations and
claims, shall be held illegal and void.
See. 8. Congress shall have power to en-
force, by appropriate legislation, the pro-
visions of this article.
ARTICLE XIV.
Be it enacted, &c, (two-thirds of both
Houses cOncurring,) That the following
amendment to the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States, be submitted TO the Legislature
of the several States, and when ratified by
three-fourths thereof, it shall be part OF
the Constitution:
ART. 10. The right of the citizens of the
UnitedStates to vote, shall not be denied by
the United States, nor any State, on account
of race, color, or previous condition of SER
yitude.
Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legisla-
ton.