duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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

[The thirteenth amendment was proposed by the thirty-eighth congress, on the 1st of February 1865, and was declared by the secretary of state, December 18, 1865, to have been ratified by the legislatures of twenty-seven of the thirty-six states.]

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.

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 state, or the members of the legislature 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 male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

SEC. 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in congress, 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 constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion 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.

SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for service in suppressing the 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 insurreetion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave: but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC. 5. The congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

[The fourteenth amendment was proposed by the thirty-ninth congress, June 16, 1866. and was declared by the proclamation of the secretary of state, dated July 28, 1868, to have been ratified by thirty of the thirty-six states.]

ARTICLE XV.

SECTION 1. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

SEC. 2. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

[The fifteenth amendment was proposed by the fortieth congress on the 27th of February, 1889, and was declared by proclamation of the secretary of state, dated March 30, 1870, to have been ratified by twenty-nine of the thirty-seven states.]

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how apportioned (14th amendment, sec. 2.) Representation of a state, vacancies in. supplied until a new election by executive authority Resolution, order, or vote, requiring the concurrence of both houses to undergo the formalities of bills.

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liberty of conscience in matters of religion
(1st amendment.)

freedom of speech and of the press (1st
amendment.)

to assemble and petition (1st amendment.)
to keep and bear arms (2d amendment.)
to be secure from the quartering of soldiers
(3rd amendment.)

to be exempt from unreasonable searches
and seizure (4th amendment.)

to be free from answering for a crime un-
less on presentment or indictment of a
jury (5th amendment.)

not to be twice jeoperdized for the same
offence (5th amendment.)

not to be compelled to be a witness against
himself (5th amendment.)

not to be deprived of life, liberty, or prop-
erty without due course of law (5th amend-
ment.)

private property not to be taken for public
use (5th amendment.)

in criminal prosecution shall enjoy the right
of speedy trial by jury, with all the means
necessary for his defense (6th amendment)
in civil cases trial to be by jury, and shall
only be re-examined according to common
law (6th amendment.)

excessive bail shall not be required, excess-
ive fines imposed, nor cruel nor unusual
punishment inflicted (8th amendment.)
enumeration of certain rights shall not op-

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