Re-reading the Constitution and Amendments on DC's site, I came across Amendment XIV, 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.
Damn. T'was good while it lasted.
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"We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt.
But in the end, we will stand."
--Roland Deschain
[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited June 18, 1999).]
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.
Damn. T'was good while it lasted.
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"We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt.
But in the end, we will stand."
--Roland Deschain
[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited June 18, 1999).]