Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafter be incurred, in aid of insurrection or war against the United States, or any claim for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor.
"SECT.

5.

The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."] [( 2) Among the prominent Southern men who had received the pardon of the President, and who, desiring to hold office under the National Government, had their disabilities under the Fourteenth Amendment subsequently removed by Congress, were: M.C.Butler, James L.Orr, and William Aitken of South Carolina; Joseph E.Brown, Henry W.
Hilliard, and Lafayette McLaws of Georgia; F.M.Cockrell, George G.
Vest, and John B.Clarke of Missouri; J.D.C.Atkins and George Maney of Tennessee; Randall Gibson of Louisiana; Otho R.Singleton of Mississippi; Alexander R.Boteler of Virginia; Allen T.Caperton and Charles J.Faulkner of West Virginia; M.W.Ransom, Thomas S.Ashe, and A.M.Scales of North Carolina; W.B.Machen of Kentucky; John T.
Morgan and James L.Pugh of Alabama.
These gentlemen had all held high positions either in the civil or military service of the Confederacy.

A great number of additional names might be cited of persons who, having been fully pardoned by the President, were afterwards relieved of their disabilities by Congress.
The names quoted are but a few of the more conspicuous of those who have, since the Rebellion, held high official positions under the Government of the United States.] [( 3) The form of the Fourteenth Amendment, as finally agreed upon by Congress and submitted to the States for ratification, is as follows:-- "ARTICLE XIV.
"SECT.

1.