The
United States
Constitution
Concerning
Thirteenth Amendment
Ended Chattel Slavery
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
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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