Fourteenth Amendment Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding indians not taxed.
Fourteenth amendment section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding indians not taxed. Constitution was passed by congress on june 13 1866 during the reconstructionperiod after the end of the civil war. Ratified july 9 1868.
14th amendment citizenship rights equal protection apportionment civil war debt. The rules developed by the supreme court for business regulation are that 1 the mere fact that a business is subject to state regulation does not by itself convert its action into that of the state for purposes of the fourteenth amendment and 2 a state normally can be held responsible for a private decision only when it has exercised coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement either overt or covert that the choice must be deemed to be that of the state. Section 2 representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding indians not taxed.
A portion of the 14th amendment was changed by the 26th amendment. Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment modified article i section 2 of the constitution. Section 2 for example penalized any state that attempted to abridge the voting rights of its black male residents by reducing the state s representation in congress no female resident of any race was afforded the constitutional right to vote in the united states until 1920.
Fourteenth amendment section 2. Passed by congress june 13 1866. 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.
Along with the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments it is one of the three reconstruction amendments.