16 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

SECTION 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 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 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.

SECTION 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Con-
gress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office,
civil or military, under the United States, or under 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,
or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Consti-
tution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebel-
lion 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.

SECTION 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 States nor any State shall

assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or

State." The Secretary of State accordingly issued a proclamation, dated the
2Sth of July, 1868, declaring that the proposed fourteenth amendment had been
ratified, in the manner hereafter mentioned, by the legislatures of thirty of the
thirty-six States, viz: Connecticut, June 30, 1866; New Hampshire, July 7, 1866;
Tennessee. July 19, 1866; New Jersey, September 11, 1866 (and the legislature of
the same State passed a resolution in April, 1868, to withdraw its consent to it) ;
Oregon. September 19, 1S66; Vermont. November 9, 1866; Georgia rejected it
November 13. 1S66. and ratified it July 21, 1868; North Carolina rejected it
December 4, 1866, and ratified it July 4. 1868; South Carolina rejected it Decem-
ber 20. 1866. and ratified it July 9, 1868; New York ratified it January 10, 1867;
Ohio ratified it January 11. 1867 (and the legislature of the same State passed a
resolution in January, 1868, to withdraw its consent to It); Illinois ratified it
January 15, 1867; West Virginia, January 16, 1867; Kansas, January 18, 1867;
Maine. January 19. 1867; Nevada. January 22, 1867; Missouri. January 26. 1867;
Indiana, January 20, 1867; Minnesota. February 1, 1867; Rhode Island, February
7, 1867; Wisconsin, February 13, 1867; Pennsylvania, February 13. 1867; Michi-
gan, February 15, 1867; Massachusetts, March 20, 1867; Nebraska, June 15,
1S67; Iowa, April 3. 1868; Arkansas, April 6. 1868; Florida. June 9. 1868;
Louisiana, July 9, 1868, and Alabama. July 13, 1868. Georgia again ratified the
amendment February 2, 1870. Texas rejected it November 1. 1866, and ratified
it February 18, 1870. Virginia rejected it January 19. 1867, and ratified it
October 8, 1869. The amendment was rejected by Kentucky, January 10, 1867;
by Delaware. February 8, 1867; by Maryland, March 23, 1867, and was not
afterwards ratified by either State.