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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  jurisdietion  the  equal  protection  of  the  laws.

Section  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
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  such
male  citizens  shall  bear  to  the  whole  number  of  male  citizens  twenty-one  years  of
age  in  such  State.

Section  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  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.

Section  4.  The  validity  of  the  public  debt  of  the  United  States,  authorized
by  law,  including  debts  incurred  for  payment  of  pensions  and  bounties  for  services
in  suppressing  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  insurrection  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.

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

Article  XV.  Section  1.  The  right  of  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.

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