"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 and 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 and 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, or claims, shall be held illegal and
void."
"Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this Article."
Therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
the aforesaid amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
be, and the same is, hereby ratified.
