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ny person of life, liberty, or property, without due processof law,nor deny to any person withia its jurisdiction the@jual protection of the laws. SECTION 2. Representatives shall be appointed amongthe several States uccording to their respective numbers,counting the whole number of persons in each State exclud-ing Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at anyelection for the choice of electors for + resident and Vice- |Presidentof the United States, representatives in Congress,the executive or judicial officers of a State, or the membersof the Leyislature thereof, is denied to any of the male in-habitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age andcitizens of the United States, or in any way abridged exceptfor participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis ofrepresentation therein shall be reduced in the proportionwhich the number of such male citizens shall bear to thewhole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age insuch State. SECTION 3. No person shall be a senator or represen-tative in Congress, or eleetor of President or Vice-President,or hold any office. civil or military, under the UnitedStates, or under any State, who, having previously takenan oath as a member of Conyress, oras an officer of the Uni-ted States, or as a member of any State Legislature. or asan executive or judicial officer of any State, to support theConstitution of the United States, shall have engaged ininsurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid orcomfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by avote of two thirds of each house, remove such disability, SEOTION 4. The validity of the public debt of theUnited States, authorized by law, including debts ineurredfor payment of pension and bounties for services in suppress-ing insurrection or rebellion. shall not be questioned. Butneither the United States nor any State shallassume or payany debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or re-bellion against the United States, or any claim for the lossor emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obliga-tions, and claims shall be held illegal and void. SEOTION 5. Congress shall have power to enforce, byappropriate leyislation, the provisions of this article. ARTICLE XV.—SeEoT10n 1. Therights of citizens ofthe United -tates to vote shall not be denied or abridged bythe United States, or by any State, on account of race, color,or previous condition of servitude. SEOTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce thisarticle by appropriate legislation.
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