Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

State wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immuni-
ties 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 its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be
apportioned among the several States
according to their respective numbers,
counting 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 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 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 par
ticipation in 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 number of male
citizens twenty-one years Of age in
such State.
Section 8. No person shall be Sem
ator or Representative in Congress, or
elector of President and Vice Presi-
dent, or hold any Office, civil or mill
tary, under the United States, or I'M
der any State, who, having previously
taken an oath, as member Of Con-
gress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as member Of any State
legislature, or as an executive or judi
cial officer Of any State, to support 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 a vote of two-thirds
Of each House, remove such disability.
Section 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 insurrection 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 insurrec-
ton 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.
Section 5. The Congress shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate legis-
lation, the provisions of this article.
ARTICLE XIV.
Section 1. The right Of citizens Of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or by any State on account Of race,
color, or previous condition of servi-
tude-
Section 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro-
pirate legislation
ARTICLE XVI.
The Congress shall have power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes, from
whatever source derived, without ap-
portionment among the several States,
and without regard to any census or
enumeration.
ARTICLE XVII.
The Senate Of the United States
shall be composed of two Senators
from each State, elected by the people
thereof, for six years; and each Sena-
tor shall have one vote. The electors
In each State shall have the qualif1-
cations requisite for electors Of the
most numerous branch Of the State
legislatures.
When vacancies happen In the rep
resentation of any State in the Sem
ate, the executive authority of such
State shall issue writs of election to
fill such vacancies: Provided, That the
legislature of any State may empower
the executive thereof to make tenn
porary appointments until the people
fill the vacancies by election as the
legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so con-
strued as to affect the election or term
of any Senator chosen before it be-
comes valid as part o. the Constitution.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Section 1. After one year from the
ratification Of this article the manufac-
ture, sale, or transportation of intoxi-
eating liquors within, the Importation
thereof into, or the expectation thereof
from the United States and all terri
tory subject to the Jurisdiction thereof
for beverage purposes Is hereby pro-
hibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the sew
eral States shall have concurrent pow
er to enforce this article by appropri-
ate legislation.
Section 8. This article shall be mop
erative unless it shall have been rati-
fed as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton by the legislatures Of the several
States, as provided In the Constitu-
ton. within seven years from the date
of the submission hereof to the States
by the Congress.
ARTICLE XIX.
The right Of citizens Of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any State on account Of sex.
Congress shall have power to en-
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