tution of the United States, submit the following
report and. resolutions:
The proposed amendment is in the following
words, viz:
Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.

Resolution.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America, in Con-
gess Assembled, (two-thirds of both Houses con-
curring,) that the following article he proposed to
the Legislatures of the Several States as an amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Le-
gislatures shall be valid as a part of the Constitu-
tion, namely:
ARTICLE XIV.

Proposed a-
mendment.

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
privilege or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State degrive any person of
life, liberty or property, without due process of
law, nor to deny to any person within its jurisdic-
tion, the equal protection of the laws.
Sec. :.'. Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States according to their re-
spective 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 participa-
tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis of repre-
sentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citizen shall" bear
to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one
years, of age in such States.