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Participants in rebellion

Section 3 prohibits the election or appointment of a person to any federal or state office who engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or treason while occupying any of certain offices. However, a two-thirds vote by each House of the Congress can override this limitation. In 1898, the Congress enacted a general removal of the Section 3 limitation.[214][215] In 1975, the citizenship of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was restored by a joint congressional resolution, retroactive to June 13, 1865.[216] In 1978, pursuant to Section 3, the Congress posthumously removed the service ban from Confederate president Jefferson Davis.[217]

Section 3 was used to prevent Socialist Party of America member Victor L. Berger, convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views, from taking his seat in the House of Representatives in 1919 and 1920.[218] However, his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court in Berger v. United States (1921). Berger was then elected and seated to three successive terms in the 1920s.[219]

Section 3 was cited in the second impeachment of Donald Trump as a reason to bar Trump from holding future office.[220] It is disputed whether Section 3 can be used as a potential "alternate path to disqualification [from office]" if the Senate votes to acquit Trump of the impeachment charge.[221][222][223][224]

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>**Participants in rebellion** > >**Section 3 prohibits the election or appointment of a person to any federal or state office who engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or treason while occupying any of certain offices.** However, a two-thirds vote by each House of the Congress can override this limitation. In 1898, the Congress enacted a general removal of the Section 3 limitation.[214][215] In 1975, the citizenship of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was restored by a joint congressional resolution, retroactive to June 13, 1865.[216] In 1978, pursuant to Section 3, the Congress posthumously removed the service ban from Confederate president Jefferson Davis.[217] > >Section 3 was used to prevent Socialist Party of America member Victor L. Berger, convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views, from taking his seat in the House of Representatives in 1919 and 1920.[218] However, his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court in Berger v. United States (1921). Berger was then elected and seated to three successive terms in the 1920s.[219] > >Section 3 was cited in the second impeachment of Donald Trump as a reason to bar Trump from holding future office.[220] It is disputed whether Section 3 can be used as a potential "alternate path to disqualification [from office]" if the Senate votes to acquit Trump of the impeachment charge.[221][222][223][224] > > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Participants_in_rebellion [((( Chuck Schumer )))](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer)

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14th A Sec 3 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."