14th Amendment, 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."
"...shall have engaged in insurrection..."
As determined by whom? The Amendment doesn't say, although curiously, it provides a means of "removing such disability."
I would presume that the framers of this amendment meant as determined by a court of law, not by some "select" Congressional committee.
