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The Senate proceeds to consider H. Res. 402 as in Committee of the Whole
Joint Resolution
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall be held as part of said Constitution, namely:
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Sec. 1. The right to vote and hold office in the United States and the several States and Territories shall belong to all male citizens of the United States who are twenty-one years old, and who have not been or shall not be duly convictee and hold of treason or other infamous crime: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the several States nof the right to make such registration laws as shall be deemed necessary to guard the purity of elections and to fix the terms of resor abridence which shall precede the exercise of the right to vote: And provided, Thatby the United States and the several, nor by any States shall have the right to fix the age and other qualifications for, on account office under their respective jurisdictionsace, which said registration laws, terms of residence, age, and other qualifications shall be uniformly applicable to all male citizensprevious condition of the United Statesservitude.
Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce by proper legislation the provisions of this article.