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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



person voted for as President, and in distinct 

 ballots the person voted for as Vice-President ; 

 and they shall make distinct lists of all persons 

 voted for as President, and of all persons 

 voted for as Vice-President, and of the num- 

 ber of votes for each, which list they shall 

 sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the 

 seat of the Government of the United States, di- 

 rected to the President of the Senate ; the 

 President of the Senate shall, in the presence 

 of the Senate and House of Representatives, 

 open all the certificates, and the votes shall 

 then be counted ; the person having the great- 

 est number of votes for President shall be 

 the President, if such number be a majority 

 of the whole number of electors appointed; 

 and if no person have such majority, then from 

 the persons having the highest numbers, not 

 exceeding three, on the list of those voted for 

 as President, the House of Representatives 

 shall choose immediately, by ballot, the Presi- 

 dent. But in choosing the President, the votes 

 shall be taken by States, the representation 

 from each State having one vote ; a quorum 

 for this purpose shall consist of a member or 

 members from two thirds of the States, and a 

 majority of all the States shall be necessary 

 to a choice. And if the House of Representa- 

 tives shall not choose a President, whenever 

 the right of choice shall devolve upon them, 

 before the fourth day of March next following, 

 then the Vice-President shall act as President, 

 as in the case of the death or other constitutional 

 disability of the President. The person hav- 

 ing the greatest number of votes as Vice- 

 President shall be the Vice-President, if such 

 number be a majority of the whole number of 

 electors appointed, and if no person have a 

 majority, then from the two highest numbers 

 on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice- 

 President ; a quorum for the purpose shall 

 consist of two thirds of the whole number of 

 Senators, and a majority of the whole number 

 shall be necessary to a choice. But no person 

 constitutionally ineligible to the office of Presi- 

 dent shall be eligible to that of Vice-President 

 of the United States. 



ARTICLE XIII. 



1 . Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, 

 except as a punishment for crime whereof the 

 party shall have been duly convicted, shall ex- 

 ist within the United States, or any place sub- 

 ject to their jurisdiction. 



2. Congress shall have power to enforce this 

 article by appropriate legislation. 



ARTICLE XIV. 



1. All persons born or natura^zed 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 snail 

 abridge the privileges or immunities of citi- 

 zens 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 protec- 

 tion of the laws. 



2. Representatives shall be apportioned 

 among the several States according to their 

 respective numbers, counting the whole num- 

 ber 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, Re- 

 presentatives in Congress, the executive and 

 judicial officers of a State, or the members of 

 the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the 

 male members of such State, being of twenty- 

 one years of age, and citizens of the United 

 States, or in any way abridged, except for par- 

 ticipation in rebellion or other crime, the basis 

 of representation therein shall be reduced in the 

 proportion which the number of such male citi- 

 zens shall bear to the whole number of male 

 citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. 



3. No person shall be a Senator or Represen- 

 tative in Congress, or elector of President and 

 Vice-President, or holding 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 Constitu- 

 tion of the United States, shall have engaged 

 in insurrection or rebellion against the same, 

 or given aid and comfort to the enemies there- 

 of. But Congress may, by a vote of two 

 thirds of each House, remove such disability. 



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 insurrec- 

 tion and rebellion, shall not be questioned. 

 But neither the United States nor any State 

 shall assume or pay any debt or obligation in- 

 curred 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. 



5. The Congress shall have power to enforce 

 by appropriate legislation the provisions of this 

 article. 



ARTICLE XV. 



1. The right of the citizens of the United 

 States to vote shall not be denied or abridged 



