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Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
United States
Constitution
Thirteenth Amendment
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.
Section 2. Congress shall
have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Fourteenth Amendment
Rights Guaranteed
Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal
Protection
Amendment Text
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 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.
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 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.
Fifteenth Amendment
Right of Black
Citizens To Vote
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.
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