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. Constitution fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection Amendment Text An nonations Section. 1. All persons born(p) or naturalized in the coupled evidences and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, be citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or perform either justness which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall whatever State deprive whatever person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal defense of the laws. Section. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the unscathed number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to right to select at any election for the choice of electors for chair and Vice Presid ent of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial military officers of a State, or the members of the legislative body 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 trim down in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the altogether 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, accepted by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.