and if no person have a
majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall
choose the Vice-president; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of
two-thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole
number shall be necessary to a choice.

Clause 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of
President shall be eligible to that of Vice-president of the United
States.

ARTICLE XIII.

SECTION I. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.

SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

ARTICLE XIV.

SECTION 1. 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. No state shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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. But when 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, 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 reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the
whole 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 ju