No person held to service or labor in one state, except as a punishment for a crime, under the laws thereof, shall be discharged by the United States from such service or labor, provided that such service or labor shall not be introduced, except as a punishment for a crime, in the United States, where absent at time of ratification of this article.
The District constituing the seat of Government of the United States shall have, as the Congress may direct, a number of electors of President and Vice President in proportion to its population.
The Congress may grant territories a number of representatives and a number of electors of President and Vice President in proportion to their population, provided, for admission of states, three-fifths of the numbers of the houses thereof.
Section 1: The people of each state shall elect a number of electors of President and Vice President, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress.
Section 2: The number of electors in each state is attributed to each candidate in proportion to the votes therein taken, provided that the candidates having obtained the greatest number of votes are attributed a majority of the number of electors that the people of such state may be entitled to elect.
Section 3: The dispositions of this article are enforced in subjects provided by the twenty-third article of amendment.
