The Lost 110 Words of Our Constitution

Amendment 14, Section 2 states:

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

In this important article Joshua Geltzer ( Director of Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection) draws attention to the neglected Section 2 of the 14th Amendment which would reduce the representation of states which suppressed the (male) vote. That of course meant mainly African Americans'   Had the principled been vindicated we would have a very different country.  See also Eric Foner's recently published The Second Founding.
The Lost 110 Words of Our Constitution
by Joshua Geltzer (Georgetown Law)