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 APPENDIX. 70Q ‘JOI`NT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. “ Be il resolved by the Senale and House of Representatives of the United State: of America m Congress assembled (two thirds of both Houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threelfourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of tho Constitution, name y : -—- “AR.TICLE XIV. " SECTION 1_. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the Jurisdiction thereon 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 privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due procesfs if lpw, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection o the laws. “ S1·:c·r10N 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 °udicial 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 lor participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proptortican which the number of such rfnale citizen: grail bear to the whole number o ma e citizens twenty-one ears o e in suc tate. “ Section 3. No prersonyshall bx 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, havin previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereofi But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disabilit. services in su pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the Uiiited States nor any State shall assume or pay my debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the nited States, or any claim for the loss or elpippeipatipn og any] slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be e i a an voi. _ “S1·:cT1oN 6. The Con ress ihall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions dsté}; Gipilehelk COLFAX, H “ Speaker q/' the House of Representatives. “ LA FAYETTE S. FOSTER, “ President of the Senate pro tempore. “ Attesé: M P “ DWI). c msnsow, “ Clerk of the House of Representatives. “ J. W. Fomuzr, “ Secretary of the Senate." And whereas the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, adopted and transmitted to the Department of State a conpurrent resglution, which concurrent resolution is in the words and figures ollowin, to wit;- - g *•I¤ Sanus on run Ururnn Smyrna,} “ July 21, 1868. " Whereas the legislatures of the States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jerse , Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan, No-
 * ‘ Ssorxox 4. Thdr validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred lor payment of pensions and bounties for