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ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATURE v. ARIZONA 

INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMM’N
 
ROBERTS, C. J., dissenting 
Appendix to opinion of ROBERTS, C. J. 

shall  be  valid  to  all  Intents  and  Purposes,  as  Part  of  this 
Constitution,  when  ratified  by  the  Legislatures  of 
three fourths  of  the  several  States,  or  by  Conventions  in 
three fourths  thereof,  as  the  one  or  the  other  Mode  of 
Ratification  may  be  proposed  by  the  Congress;  Provided
that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year 
One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Man-
ner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section 
of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, 
shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.” 

Art.  VI,  cl.  3:  “The  Senators  and  Representatives  before
mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legisla-
tures,  and  all  executive  and  judicial  Officers,  both  of  the 
United States and of the several States, shall be bound by 
Oath  or  Affirmation,  to  support  this  Constitution;  but  no
religious  Test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a  Qualification  to
any Office or public Trust under the United States.” 

Amdt.  14,  §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 a 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  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.”    (Modified  by 
Amdts. 19, 26)