[Arts. 12-14] AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U. S. 13

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
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Ala-
bama, 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 Constitu-
tion 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 State. " The Secretary of State accordingly issued a procla-
mation, dated the 28th of July, 1868, declaring that the proposed fourteenth amend-
ment 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, 1866; Vermont, November 9, 1866; Georgia rejected it November 13,
1866, and ratified it July 21, 1868; North Carolina rejected it December 4, 1866, and
ratified it July 4, 1868; South Carolina rejected it December 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