Sections
5 entriesSection 1Establishes that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens of the United States…Section 2Requires Representatives to be apportioned among the states by counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.…Section 3Bars from federal or state office, or serving as a presidential elector, anyone who took an oath to support the Constitution as…Section 4Bars questioning the validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts for pensions and bounties for…Section 5Allows Congress to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment by appropriate legislation. The enforcement power covers all of the amendment's provisions,…