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 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 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 5.  The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

XV.

SECTION 1.  The right 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 2.  The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

[1] Reprinted from the text issued by the State Department.

INDEX

Abolitionists. 
Acadia. 
Adams, John; Vice-President; President; his administration. 
Adams, John Quincy, portrait; and the Monroe Doctrine; President,
  his administration; and the right of petition. 
Adams, Samuel. 
Alabama claims. 
Alaska, purchase of; map of. 
Albany Congress. 
Algerine War. 
Alien and Sedition Acts. 
Allen, Ethan. 
America, discovery of; naming of. 
American Association. 
Americus Vespucius, see Vespucius. 
Andre, Major. 
Andros, Sir Edmund. 
Antietam, battle of. 
Antislavery agitation. 
Appomattox, surrender at. 
Arnold, Benedict, at Quebec; in Burgoyne’s campaign; treason of. 
Arthur, C.A., Vice-President; President. 
Articles of Confederation. 
Atlanta Campaign.

Bacon’s Rebellion. 
Balboa discovers Pacific Ocean. 
Baltimore, Lord. 
Bank of the United States, the First; the Second. 
Bennington, battle of. 
Blaine, J.G., candidate for the Presidency. 
Blair, F.P. 
Blockade of Confederate seaports. 
“Border States” in Civil War. 
Boston, founded; massacre at; destruction of tea at; closing of the