CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 15

choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next
following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the
case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.—
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall
be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole
number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then
from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the
Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of
the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number
shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible
to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of
the United States.

ARTICLE XIII.*

SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris-
diction.

SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

ARTICLE XIV. +

SECTION 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.

*The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-eighth Congress,
on the 1st of February, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secre-
tary of State, dated the 18th of December, 1865, to have been ratified by the
legislatures of twenty-seven of the thirty-six States, viz : Illinois, Rhode Island,
Michigan, Maryland. New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvana, Virginia. Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana. Louisiana, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Vermont. Tennessee. Arkansas, Connecticut. New Hampshire, South
Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia.

+The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was pro-
posed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on
the 16th of June, 1866. On the 21st of July, 18fi8, Congress adopted and trans-
mitted to the Department of State a concurrent resolution declaring that "the
legislatures of the States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Ver-
mont, New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri.
Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas,
Florida, North Carolina, Alabama. South Carolina and Louisiana, being three-
fourths and more of the several States of the Union, have ratified the fourteenth
article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, duly proposed by
two-thirds of each House of the Thirty-ninth Congress: Therefore Resolved,
That said fourteenth article is hereby declared to be a part of the Constitution
of the United States, and it shall be duly promulgated as such by the Secretary of