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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 III.-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 IV.-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 V.-The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
ARTICLE XV
Section I.-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 II.-The Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation.
ARTICLE XVI
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.
ARTICLE XVII
Section 1.-The Senate of the United States shall be composed
of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof,
for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors