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State could not, or did not, protect the loyal citizens in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties or even in their persons. The bill proposed to meet these difficulties by providing that the Governor of Georgia should reconvene the originally elected members of the legislature, reseat the expelled negro members, and expel such members as could not swear that they were not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It may be remarked here in passing that the Fourteenth Amendment does not disqualify anybody, in express language, from being a member of a
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State legislature. It disqualifies all persons who have engaged in rebellion after having taken an oath, as a member of Congress or of a
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State legislature, or as a United States or a
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State officer, to support the Constitution of the United States, from holding a seat in Congress or from being an officer of the United States or of a
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State, _but not from holding a seat in a
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State