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.

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 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 en

gaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But congress may, by a vote of twothirds 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. [Declared ratified July 28th, 1868. U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 15, pp. 709-11.]

ARTICLE XV.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

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.

SECTION 2. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. [U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 15, p. 346.]

INDEX

TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ACTS, ETC., of each state entitled to credit in other states, Art. 4 Sec. 1.

AMENDMENTS to the constitution, how made Art. 5.

APPROPRIATIONS, must be made by law, Art. 1, Sec. 9.

ATTAINDER, bill of, prohibited, Art. 1, Sec. 9. ATTAINDER, of treason, not to work corruption of blood, etc., Art 3, Sec 3.

BILLS, for revenue, shall originate in the house of representatives, Art. 1, Sec. 7.

BILLS, how to become laws, Art 1, Sec. 1.

BILLS, not returned in ten days considered approved, Art. 1, Sec. 7.

CAPITATION TAX, Art 1, Sec. 9.

CENSUS, to be taken every ten years, Art 1, Sec. 2. CLAIMS, of the United States, or of the several states, not to be prejudiced, Art. 4, Sec. 3. CITIZENS, of each state, privileges in other states, Art. 4, Sec. 3; who are, amendment 14.

COMMERCE, regulations of, to be equal, etc. Art. 1, Sec 9.

CONGRESS, vested with legislative power, Art. 1, Sec. 1.

may alter the regulations of state legislatures concerning elections of senators and representatives, except as to the place of choosing senators, Art. 1, Sec. 4.

shall assemble every year, Art. 1, Sec. 4.

may provide for cases of removal, etc., of president and vice-president, Art. 2, Sec, 1.

CONGRESS, may determine time of choosing elect-
ors of president and vice-president, Art. 2,
Sec. 1.

may vest the appointment of inferior officers in
the president alone, in the courts of law, or
heads of departments, Art. 2, Sec. 2.

may from time to time establish courts inferior
to Supreme Court, Art. 3, Sec. 1.

may declare the punishment of treason, Art. 3,
Sec. 3.

may prescribe the manner of proving the acts,
records, etc., of each state, Art. 4, Sec. 1.

the assent of, required to formation of a new
state within jurisdiction of another, or by the
junction of two or more, Art. 4. Sec. 3.
may propose amendments to the constitution or,
on application, call a convention, Art. 5, Sec. 1.
the assent of, required to the admission of new
states into the union, Art. 4. Sec. 3.

CONGRESS, powers of-

to lay and collect taxes, duties, etc., Art. 1, Sec. 8.
to borrow money, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to regulate commerce, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and nat-
uralization, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to coin money, regulate the value of coin and fix
a standard of weights and measures,
Sec. 8.

to punish counterfeiting, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

Art. 1,

to establish postoffices and post roads, Art, 1,
Sec. 8.

to authorize patents to authors and inventors,
Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to define and punish piracies, felonies on the high
seas, and offenses against the law of nations,
Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to declare war, grant letters of marque, and make
rules concerning captures, Art. 1, Sec. 8.

to raise and support armies, Art. 1, Sec. 8.
to provide and maintain a navy, Art. 1, Sec. 8.