Proposal for the XIV Amendment Repeal and Replacement

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Amendment 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 1. modified/clarified version; All persons born of United States Citizens or of Legal Immigrant Parents including Naturalized Parent or Parents, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,are citizens of the United States and the State where they reside. Neither the Federal Government nor State Governments shall make or enforce any law which abridges the protections of the Bill of Rights, or of the main body of the Constitution. Nor shall the Federal Government or the State Governments deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law. Furthermore the Federal Government and the State Governments shall provide EQUAL PROTECTION and EQUAL JUSTICE under the law. The Federal Government shall not deprive the States of the protections granted the citizens of the United States.)

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 2. Simplified; Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States counting the number of persons of the age of majority, that age being currently 18 years old. This may not be abridged except for participation in open armed or unarmed rebellion against the United States.) 

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 3 simplified; No person having engaged in open armed rebellion, or armed terrorist acts involving deadly infernal machines, electronic devices, or arms of any nature, against the United States, and those convicted of a Felony, shall not be allowed to hold any Governmental office unless the disability is removed by two thirds of both houses of Congress.)

Section 4.

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. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

( Section 4 simplified; No public debts shall be paid stemming from debts incurred by rebellious States or Persons engaged in open armed rebellion or acts of  terrorism as previously defined, against the United States) 

Section 5.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

(Section 5. clarified; The Congress shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this article, by appropriate Legislation Which does not abridge any portion of the Constitution ,Bill of Rights, or Amendments to that Constitution)

Section 6.

( New Section 6. All previous rulings under the prior 14th amendment are now held to be null and void from the ratification of this replacement amendment forward..)