14 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all. the certificates
and the votes shall then he counted; —The person having the greatest num-
ber of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a
majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have
such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not
exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of
Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in
choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation
from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of
a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all
the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representa-
tives shall not choose a President whenever the right of 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 con-
stitutional 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 consti-
tutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of
Vice-President of the United States,

ARTICLE XIII. 1

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

SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro-
priate legislation.

ARTICLE XIV. 2

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

1 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 Secretary 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, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada,
Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia.

2 The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed
to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 16th of
June, 1866. On the 21st of July, 1868, Congress adopted and transmitted to the
Department of State. a concurrent resolution declaring that "the legislatures of the
States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New York, Ohio,
Illinois, West Virginia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, New