The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-24
Fourteenth aud Fifteenth mend.
mems.
ARTICLE XIV.

SECTION. /. All persons born or natur-
allied in the United States, and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State where
in they reside, 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 de
prive any person of life, liberty, or pro-
perty, without due process of law, nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction,
the equal protection of the laws.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be APP
portioned among the several States, ac-
cordlng to their respective numbers, count
ing the whole number of persons in each
State, excluding Indians not taxed. But
when the right to vote at any election, for
the choice of electors for President and
Nice-Presldent of the United States, Re
personalities in Congress, the Executive
and Judicial officers of State, or the
members of the Legislature thereof, is
denied 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
III rebellion or other crime, the basis of
representation therein shall be reduced in
the proportion which the number Of such
male citizens shall bear to the whole num-
Der of male citizens twenty-One wears of
age, In such State,
SEC. 3. No person shall be Senator
or Representative in Congress, or eIector
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 q member of
any State Legislature, or as an Executive
or Judicial officer of any State, to sup
port the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in instruction or re-
bellion against the same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof But
Congress may, by 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, including debts incurred for payment
of pensions and bounties or services in
suppressing instruction 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
instruction or rebellion against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or eman-
cipation Of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations and claims, shall be held lille
gal and void.
SEC. ). Congress shall have power to
enforce, by appropriate Legislation, the
provisions of this article.
ARTICLE XIV.
Be it enacted, &c, (two-thirds of both
Houses concurring,) That the following
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, be submitted to the Legis-
lature of the several States, and when
ratified by three-fourths thereof, it shall
be part Of said Constitution
ART. 10. The right of the citizens Of
the United States to vote, shall not be de
MED by the United States, nor any State,
on account of race, color, or previous con-
ditioe of servitude.
SEC. 2 The Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate leg
islation.