14th Amendment Section 3

Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment modified article i section 2 of the constitution.

14th amendment section 3. 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. 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. Section 3 14th amendment.

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. Constitution was passed by congress on june 13 1866 during the reconstruction period after the end of the civil war. 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.

The fourteenth amendment offered an antidote to these discriminatory laws by guaranteeing to members of all races due process of law which requires the legal system to provide fundamentally fair trial procedures and equal protection of the laws which requires the government to treat all persons with equal concern and respect. Along with the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments it is one of the three reconstruction amendments. 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.

The fourteenth amendment to the u s. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The senate of the united states shall be composed of two senators from each state chosen by the legislature thereof for six years.