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 CONSTITL"FIO3\' OF THF} UNITEL Anrrwuz .,[X.] The powers not delegated to the United States by the C0usti· b` tution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the .States respectively, or to the people. [ARTICLE XI.] The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity. commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens ·of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. The eleventh amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the l0gl>4l3llll‘PS of the several Statesby the Third (Wmgress. on the 5th September, 1794; and was declared in :1 n1¤—s.<.·1·,:<· from the President to Congress. dated the Sth of January, 1798, to have been ratitied ny the legislatures of tlnreefourths of $ the States. ` _ . ‘ ‘ gj ` [ARTICLE XII.] S The Electors shall meet in theirrespeetive states, and-rote by ballot for President and ‘Vice4President, one of whom, at V, least. shall not—be an inhabitant of the same state with them- j selves: they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President. and in distinct ballots the person voted for as `Vice- S President, and they shall make distinct lists, of all persons { voted for as President, and, of all persons voted for as Vice- H President. and of the number of votes for each. which lists they C shall sign. and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the 1 government of the United States, directed to the President of J the Senate ;—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence t of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the cer· b tliirates and the votes shall then- be counted ;-·»The person 0 having the greatest number of votes for President,_sha1lZbe the ( President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of I Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then 2 from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three U on the list of those voted_for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. ( But in ehoosing the President, the votes shall be taken by 8 states, the representation from each state having one vote;. a { quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members C from twethirds of the states, and a majority of all the states _; shall be necessary to a choice; And it the House-· of Repre— ( sentativés shall not choose `a President whenever the right of . 5 choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March { next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, 4 as in the case of the deathor other constitutional disability of 5 the President.—————The person having the greatest number- ot l Ivotes as \'ice·Presldent, shallvbe the Vice·Presldent, if such num- -5 ber be a majority of the whole number ot Electors appointed, ( and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest 1 numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice·President; 1 a quoruni for the purpose shall consist of two—thirds of the whole ( mmnber ot Senators, and a majority of the. whole number shall `1 be not-essaryxto a choice. · But no person constitutionally ineli- • glhle to the office of I{residc·n_t shall be eligible to that of Vice- 1 President of the United States. · The twelfth séeuiknent to the Constitution of the United States I was proposed to the `legislatures of the several States by the Eighth Congress, on the 12th of December, 1803, in lieu ot the original third paragraph of the mst section ot the second article; and was declared in a.P¥°d6.nlntion· of the Secretary- of State, dated the 26th ot September. 1804, to have been ratitled by the leglslaturesot tnree-tom.-tus ot the States. · ARTICLE, XIII. Smcrrox 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary. servitude, except as a puxilslimentfor crime whereof the party shall have bee duly convicted, shall exist within the United Statm. or DJ plaee ‘subj_ect to their jurisdiction.

I ST.;t’l‘ES OF .lllIz’HIC.1————1‘787 Sntzrlox. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article y appropriate.legislatioln. ·, . The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution o! the United. States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on the Ist of Felirnary, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation: of the Secretary of State. dated the 18th of December, 1865, to have been ratified by the legislatures or ..twe_n`ty-seven of the thirty-six States, viz: Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana. Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Vermont, Tennessee-, Arkansas. Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. Amicus XIV. Snorroyc 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United itates, aml subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of he United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ltate shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the mivileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor hall any State deprive any person of life. liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its urisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ‘ Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the everal States according to their respective numbers, counting; he whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. ‘But when the right to vote at any election for the. ehoice of electors. for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and 'udicial ofllcers of a State, or the members of the Legislature hereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, icing twenty oneyenrs of age, and citizens of the United States. »r in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion'. ir other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be educed in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty- me years of age in such State. . . SECTION 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in longressg oxnelector of President and Vice President, or hold my ofllce, civil or military, under the United States, or under my State, who, having previously taken an oath; as a member >f Congress, or as an omcer of the United States, or as a memier of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial itllcer of any State, to support the Constitution offthe United Btates, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against he same. or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Zougress may by a vote of two-thirds of. each House, remove luclr disability. n Section 4.—'1‘he validity of the public debt of the United \ States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment if pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. _ But neither the United States nor any State shall assume Iorpay any debt or wbllgation incurred in aid of insurrection 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 legislation, the provisions of this article; _ The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution oth the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ntnt—h Congress, on the _16tb or June, 1866. On the 21st of July, 1868, Congress adopted and transmitted to the Department of States concurrent resolution, declaring that " the legislature•` of the States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Kansai. Maine, Nevada. Jflssourl, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire. Massachnsetts, Nebraska, Iowa. Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisnna, being three-fourths and more of the several States of the Union, have ratltled the fourteentln article of amendment to the Constitution of the United State!. duly proposed by two·thli;ds of each House of the Thirtyminth rgongress: Therefore, Resolved, That said fourteenth. article in