Amendment 14:
Rights of Citizenship
(Ratified July 9, 1868)
Section 3. (complete)
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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