Title 2 — The CongressRelease 119-73
§6 Reduction of representation
Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES › § 6
Summary
If a State takes away or limits voting in elections the amendment names for its male U.S. citizens aged 21—except for rebellion or other crime—its number of Representatives must be reduced by the same proportion.
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Title 2, §6
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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.
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Codification R.S. § 22 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, § 6, 17 Stat. 29.
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2 U.S.C. § 6
Title 2 — The Congress
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73