Disqualification for insurrection or rebellion
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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.
Proposal and ratification: The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866. It was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868 to have been ratified by the legislatures of 28 of the 37 States. was completed on July 9, 1868.
Simplified explanation
No person who, having taken an oath as a member of Congress or a State legislature, or as a federal or State officer, to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against it or gave aid or comfort to its enemies may hold office; Congress may remove this disability by a two-thirds vote of each House.