Same. votes for President shall be the President, if such a num- Slavery prohibited. ARTICLE XIII. SLAVERY. SECTION 1. Slavery prohibited. 2. Enforcement of this Article by Congress. SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been 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.-[Declared ratified December 18th, 1865. U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 13, p. 775. Enforce ment of this Article by Congress. ARTICLE XIV. CITIZENSHIP, REPRESENTATION, AND PAYMENT OF PUBLIC debt. SECTION 1. Who are citizens-rights of. 2. Apportionment of representation among the several 3. Certain persons disqualified from holding office; removal of disability, how effected. 4. Payment of public debt not to be questioned; debts 5. Power of Congress to enforce this Article. 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 citi zens 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. Who are rights of. citizens ment of tion among the several States. SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among Apportionthe several States according to their respective numbers, representacounting 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 twentyone 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. Certain persons from holding office, etc. SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative disqualified 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. Payment of Power of 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 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. SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by enforce this appropriate legislation, the provisions of this Article.[Declared ratified July 28th, 1868. U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 15, pp. 709–11. Article. NOTE. The case of The People vs. Brady, 40 Cal., p. 198, et seq., reviews at considerable length the apparent conflict of certain statutes of this State with this Article, and reviews and overrules the case of The People vs. George Washington, 36 Cal., p. 658. FOREIGNERS.-The right of the State to tax foreigners for the privilege of extracting precious metals from the mines of this State-known here as the "Foreign Miners' License Act"-was held to be superseded by the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution, by Sawyer, J., of United States Circuit Court, in the case of United States vs. John Jackson, Tax Collector of Trinity County, decided in before Judges Sawyer and Hoffman. 1871, ARTICLE XV. ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. SECTION 1. Right of all citizens to vote. 2. Power of Congress to enforce this Article. 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. SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation.—[U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 15, p. 346. Right of to vote. all citizens Power of enforce this Congress to Article. 46-VOL. II-POL. |