Senate Joint Resolution 125, March 12, 1914

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That in lieu of the third paragraph of section two, Article I, of the Constitution of the United States, and in lieu of section two, Article XIV of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the following be submitted, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States of the Union:

"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective number of electors vocationally. But when the right to vote at any election [page 2] for 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 elector of such State and citizen of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis for representation therein shall be apportioned according to the highest number of votes cast in each of the several States for President after each presidential election.

"2. This amendment shall not be construed as affecting the election or terms of any Representative chosen before it becomes valid as a part of the Constitution.

"3. That Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this amendment."  [page 3]