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§ 6. —  Reduction of representation.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC6]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
           CHAPTER 1--ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
 
Sec. 6. Reduction of representation

    Should any State deny or abridge the right of any of the male 
inhabitants thereof, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the 
United States, to vote at any election named in the amendment to the 
Constitution, article 14, section 2, except for participation in the 
rebellion or other crime, the number of Representatives apportioned to 
such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such 
male citizens shall have to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one 
years of age in such State.

(R.S. Sec. 22.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 22 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, Sec. 6, 17 Stat. 
29.



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