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He pronounced my name correctly.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the pronouncemug. 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 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 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 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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 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 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 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the Fourteenth Amendmentmug. The establishment of an organization of law and office that the several states of the United States of America have agreed to submit to in the effort to maintain partnership and equality with the other states.
The offices and delegation of laws established by the Constitution of the United States of America.
The offices and delegation of laws established by the Constitution of the United States of America.
The federal government overstepped its power when it created the Fourteenth Amendment and created created one totalitarian nation out of many states.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the federal governmentmug. 1. I was chatting on IRC last night and this guy sent me a whole bunch of porn.
2. The IRC is a mish-mash of all kinds of drivel that supposedly imposes an income tax.
2. The IRC is a mish-mash of all kinds of drivel that supposedly imposes an income tax.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the IRCmug. I studied the Internal Revenue Code for years and I never found any law that makes a local American citizen liable for the income tax!
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the Internal Revenue Codemug. An income tax that becomes more and more burdensome and/or complex over time.
Progressive income tax
Progressive income tax
The "progressive income tax" like the income tax system of the United States of America is one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the Progressive income taxmug. 1. The act of dating a person with the intent to marry.
2. A game where a black robe and some people in suits and ties dance around and pretend to establish justice on behalf of a terrorized victim of society.
2. A game where a black robe and some people in suits and ties dance around and pretend to establish justice on behalf of a terrorized victim of society.
1. I courted her for a while but realized that she wasn't The One.
2. The innocent man went to court and was thrown in prison for five years.
2. The innocent man went to court and was thrown in prison for five years.
by Jon Davis January 14, 2004
Get the courtmug.