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executive and judicial officers of the
State or the mem-
-bers of the Legislative 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 Repre-
sentative in Congress, or Elector of President or
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 mem-
ber of any State
Legislation, 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
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