1458                             Joint Resolutions

Resolved, That the Commission be requested, if possible, to report
the results of its findings to the General Assembly at its 1960 Session.

Approved April 28, 1959.

No. 27
(Senate Joint Resolution 15)

Senate Joint Resolution ratifying Article 14 of the Constitution of
the United States.

Whereas, The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States was proposed to the Legislatures of the States of the United
States by the 39th Congress on the 16th day of June, 1866; and

Whereas, On the 21st day of July, 1868, the Congress adopted and
transmitted to the Department of State of the United States, a con-
current resolution declaring that the requisite number of three-
fourths of the States of the Union had ratified the said 14th Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States and that the said 14th
Amendment was thereby declared to be a part of the Constitution of
the United States; and

Whereas, The State of Maryland on March 23, 1867, rejected
the proposed 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States and has not since ratified the same; and

Whereas, The said 14th Amendment has long been a vital part of
the Constitution of the United States and should be ratified by the
State of Maryland to show the concurrence of this great State with
the principles therein enunciated; and

Whereas, The said 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States provides as follows, viz:

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.

Sec. 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 mem-

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.