Sunday, February 12, 2012

Revision

AMENDMENTS:

13th Amendment:
Section 1:
If  you enslave any persons, anyone involved will be duly convicted.
Section 2:
"Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
14th Amendment:
Section 1:
If you reside in the United States or any State within the United States, you have the rights as a citizen of the Federal government and of the State Government from which you reside in. No other state can enforce their laws that "abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States". "Nor shall the any state deprive any persons of Life, Liberty, or Property, without due process of law." or within the jurisdiction of the law.
Section 2:
For every persons able to vote, there are representatives appointed to the respective numbers, however, "except for participation in rebellion, or other crime" the numbers of representative will be reduced.
Section 3:
If you made an oath to the government, by military, congress, legislator, etc, to support the government and that cause, you cannot support the enemies or rebel against any cause supported by the government from which the oath was taken.
Section 4:
Debt from the United States, authorized by law, by persons, company, industry, institution, to aid to "for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion". But if anyone aids the enemies or rebels, no debt will be paid to them by the United States.
Section 5:
"The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

15th Amendment:
Section 1:
The United States can not deny the right to vote based or previous servitude, race or color.
Section 2:
"The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."



Citation added:
Divine, Robert A. "Appendix." America past and Present. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education/Longman, 2011. A-12. Print.

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