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Amendments (Thirteen through Nineteen)
13th 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.
14th Amendment
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 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.
15th Amendment
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.
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes,
from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the
several States and without regard to any census or enumeration.
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators
from each State, elected by the people thereof, for sex years; and
each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State
shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most
numerous branch of the State legislatures. When vacancies happen
in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive
authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such
vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower
the executive thereof to make temporary appointment until the
people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may
direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the
election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as
part of the Constitution.
18th Amendment
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article
the manufacture, sale or transportation of
intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof
into, or the exportation thereof from the United
States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have
concurrent power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
the legislatures of the several States, as provided in
the Constitution, within seven years of the date of
the submission hereof to the States by Congress.
19th Amendment
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 sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.