Title 2, The CongressRelease 119-102
§6 Reduction of Representation
Title 2 › CHAPTER 1 — ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES › § 6
Summary
If a State denies male U.S. citizens who are twenty-one years of age the right to vote, except for taking part in a rebellion or committing a crime, the State’s number of Representatives is reduced in the same proportion as those denied are of all such men in the State.
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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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102