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