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Section 3 was enforced for a few years at the federal and state levels, but in 1872 the necessary supermajorities in Congress granted an amnesty to most of the men who were barred from office. military officers, federal officers and state officials who served the Confederacy from serving again in public office unless their disability was removed by at least a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress. Ratified shortly after the Civil War, Section 3 was designed to prevent current and former U.S. Before the violence at the Capitol, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was one of the most obscure parts of the Constitution.
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