-superseded by Constitution of the United States (1885)

The Electors shall be chosen in Districts, not more than two in any one district, and the voters in each district shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature, and the arrangement of the districts shall not be alterable by the states within the period of two years previous to the election of President.

The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be President; and if no person has such a majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding two on the list of those voted for as President, a joint ballot of the two Houses of Congress shall choose immediately the President.

The person having the greatest number of votes for Vice President, shall be Vice President; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding two on the list of those voted for as Vice President, a joint ballot of the two Houses of Congress shall choose immediately the Vice President.

The several States shall be grouped into several contiguous Judicial Divisions with as close to equal Numbers of Free Persons as Possible; and the Supreme Court shall consist of residents of each Judicial Division in equal number, and each Justice of the Supreme Court shall have been resident of their Judicial Division for a period of not less than fourteen Years.

Any person who is or has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States shall be ineligible to the Presidency or Vice Presidency, or appointment to any executive office, for-ever.

Article IV, section 2, second paragraph is hereby repealed and struck from the Constitution.

Knowingly taking part in any Slave-trade, directly or indirectly, shall remain piracy, and shall be punishable accordingly; and taking, or aiding in taking, human beings from within this Country to beyond its limits, or from beyond its limits to within this Country as the case may be, for the purpose of selling them, shall be high crimes punishable by death.

Electoral votes for the President and Vice President of the United States shall be chosen by the people of the several districts, and the voters in each state shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

In case the casting of electoral votes, or the election of a member of Congress, shall see a double return, a joint session of Congress shall constitute a tribunal of not more than eleven members, this tribunal shall determine which votes are legal, and shall present them to Congress.

A joint session of Congress shall serve as the judge of returns and qualifications of all election returns, save for elections to the House of Representatives.

Congress shall appoint a Council of fifteen members, which shall sit when Congress is adjourned or out of session; and it may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them.

Slavery being incompatible with a republican form of government, is forever prohibited in the United States, and all territories under its jurisdiction; and involuntary servitude is permitted only as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

At no time shall convicts be contracted for labor for any state or federal government, or for the benefit of manufactories, agriculture, or industry.

Congress shall have power to make all laws to enforce this article.

All persons who willingly participated in the late rebellion against the United States are hereby barred from voting and office in all state and federal elections, unless granted amnesty by Act of Congress.

Neither the United States nor any State shall assume debts incurred or hereafter incurred in aid of insurrection or war against the United States, nor shall they make payment of claims to any disloyal persons, or for emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

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; and every citizen owes plenary Allegiance to the Government of the United States, and is entitled to and shall receive its full protection at home and abroad.

There shall be no oligarchy, aristocracy, or caste invested with peculiar privileges or powers, and there shall be no denial of rights and privileges, civil or political, on account of race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious creed anywhere within the limits of the United States or the jurisdiction thereof, but all persons therein shall be equal before the law whether in the court room or at the ballot box.

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, or to take office therein, shall never be abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Congress shall have power to make all laws to enforce this article.

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may not propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

The President shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Congress in joint Session assembled, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Members present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Congress in joint Session assembled, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

All adult male citizens of the United States have 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, or the officers of territorial, county, and municipal governments; and every election thereof shall be held by ballot, printed by the government thereof, selected from concealed name-boxes, and cast in secret ballot-boxes.

Provided that no person barred by the nineteenth amendment, or duly convicted of treason or some other high crime, or married to a citizen so disqualified, shall ever vote at any election so named in the first section of this article, without an Act of Congress granting amnesty; nor shall they ever take up offices therein.

Every person who shall be chosen to serve as an Executive or Judicial Officer of the United States, or of any of the several States, or counties, or municipalities therein, or of the members of the Legislature thereof, shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am well acquainted with the Constitution of the United States, and the terms of its second article of amendment, adopted in the year eighteen hundred and seventy nine; that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the constitutionally elected and recognized authority of the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the constitutionally elected and recognized authority of the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the constitutionally elected and recognized authority of the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."

Congress shall have power to make all laws to enforce this article.

The Congress shall have Power, by appropriate legislation, to issue Money in any form whatsoever.

It shall be a high crime directly to incite armed resistance to the constitutionally elected and recognized authority of the United States, or to establish or to join Societies or Combinations, secret or public, the object of which is to offer armed resistance to the constitutionally elected and recognized authority of the United States, or to prepare for the same by collecting arms, organizing men, or otherwise. No person shall be convicted of this crime unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same act, or on confession in open Court, and Congress shall declare the punishment of this high crime.

Trials for Treason and other high Crimes shall take place in the State or district in which the crime shall have been committed, unless the administration of Justice shall be interrupted or impeded at the time by rebellion or war. Congress shall provide by law that trials for treason and other high crimes shall be held in places where Justice may be administered without hindrance.

The twenty-seventh article of amendment, third paragraph of the Constitution, shall be amended so that it shall read as follows:

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The term of the President shall end at noon on the 1st day of December, of the year before which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.