36 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 8,

States at the first session thereof, begun and held at the city
of Washington, on Monday, the fourth day of December,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, it was resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled,
two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Ar-
ticle be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
which when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures,
shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of said
Constiution, namely :

ARTICLE FOURTEEN.

Sec. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United
States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, 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 process of law, nor deny to any. person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the
several States according to their respective members, 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 Legis-
lature 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 participa-
tion 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.

Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in
Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold
any office, civil or military, under the United States, or un-
der any State, who having 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, pr as an Executive or Ju-
dicial 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 thereof. But
Congress may, by a 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 for services in suppressing insurrection
or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United