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B6 Mountain Views News Saturday, July 4, 2020 OUR CONSTITUTION B6 Mountain Views News Saturday, July 4, 2020 OUR CONSTITUTION 
the House of Representatives 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 having 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 
President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the 
United States. 

Thirteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been 
duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or 
any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

Section 2 
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Fourteenth Amendment 
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 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 the power to enforce, by 
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. 

Fifteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of 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 the power to enforce this article 
by appropriate legislation. 

Sixteenth Amendment 
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes 
on incomes, from whatever source derived, without 
apportionment among the several States, and without 
regard to any census or enumeration. 

Seventeenth Amendment 
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two 
Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, 
for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. 
The electors in each State shall have the qualifications 
requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the 
State legislatures. 

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State 
in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall 
issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, 
That the legislature of any State may empower the 
executive thereof to make temporary appointments until 
the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature 
may direct. 

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the 
election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes 
valid as part of the Constitution. 


Eighteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
After one year from the ratification of this article the 
manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating 
liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the 
exportation thereof from the United States and all 
territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage 
purposes is hereby prohibited. 


Section 2 
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent 
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 


Section 3 
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by 
the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the 
Constitution, within seven years from the date of the 
submission hereof to the States by the Congress. 


Nineteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall 
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any 
State on account of sex. 


Section 2 
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 


Twentieth Amendment 
Section 1 
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end 
at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of 
Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of 
January, of the years in which such terms would have 
ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms 
of their successors shall then begin. 


Section 2 
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, 
and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of 
January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. 


Section 3 
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the 
President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice 
President elect shall become President. If a President 
shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the 
beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have 
failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act 
as President until a President shall have qualified; and 
the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein 
neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall 
have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, 
or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, 
and such person shall act accordingly until a President or 
Vice President shall have qualified. 


Section 4 
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the 
death of any of the persons from whom the House of 
Representatives may choose a President whenever the 
right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for 
the case of the death of any of the persons from whom 
the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the 
right of choice shall have devolved upon them. 


Section 5 
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of 
October following the ratification of this article. 


Section 6 
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the 
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within 
seven years from the date of its submission. 


Twenty-First Amendment 
Section 1 
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States is hereby repealed. 


Section 2 
The transportation or importation into any State, 
Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery 
or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the 
laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. 


Section 3 
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by 
conventions in the several States, as provided in the 
Constitution, within seven years from the date of the 
submission hereof to the States by the Congress. 


Twenty-Second Amendment 
Section 1 
No person shall be elected to the office of the President 
more than twice, and no person who has held the office 
of President, or acted as President, for more than two 
years of a term to which some other person was elected 
President shall be elected to the office of the President 
more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any 
person holding the office of President when this Article 
was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any 
person who may be holding the office of President, or 
acting as President, during the term within which this 
Article becomes operative from holding the office of 
President or acting as President during the remainder of 
such term. 


Section 2 
This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 


been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the 
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within 
seven years from the date of its submission to the States 
by the Congress. 

Twenty-Third Amendment 
Section 1 
The District constituting the seat of Government of 
the United States shall appoint in such manner as the 
Congress may direct: 

AnumberofelectorsofPresidentand Vice Presidentequal 
to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in 
Congress to which the District would be entitled if it 
were a State, but in no event more than the least populous 
State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the 
States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes 
of the election of President and Vice President, to be 
electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in 
the District and perform such duties as provided by the 
twelfth article of amendment. 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Twenty-Fourth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any 
primary or other election for President or Vice President, 
for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator 
or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or 
abridged by the United States or any State by reason of 
failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Twenty-Fifth Amendment 
Section 1 
In case of the removal of the President from office or of 
his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become 
President. 

Section 2 
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice 
President, the President shall nominate a Vice President 
who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority 
vote of both Houses of Congress. 

Section 3 
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro 
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives his written declaration that he is unable 
to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until 
he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, 
such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice 
President as Acting President. 

Section 4 
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the 
principal officers of the executive departments or of such 
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to 
the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives their written declaration 
that the President is unable to discharge the powers and 
duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately 
assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting 
President. 

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President 
pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives his written declaration that no inability 
exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office 
unless the Vice President and a majority of either the 
principal officers of the executive department or of such 
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit 
within four days to the President pro tempore of the 
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
their written declaration that the President is unable to 
discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon 
Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within 
forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If 
the Congress within twenty-one days after receipt of the 
latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, 
within twenty-one days after Congress is required to 
assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses 
that the President is unable to discharge the powers and 
duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to 
discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the 
President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. 

Twenty-Sixth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States, who are 
eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied 
or abridged by the United States or by any State on 
account of age. 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Twenty-Seventh Amendment 
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the 
Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an 
election of Representatives shall have intervened. 

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