An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
A special joint committee made up of nine members from the House of Representatives six members of the Senate. This committee was formed to inquire into the condition of the states in rebellion.
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The Joint Committee meets; H. Res. 31 is received; the Joint Committee resolves to keep proceedings secret; the Sub-Committee to wait on the President reports; Mr. Stevens proposes a constitutional amendment on represenation, which is debated and amended.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to the number of their respective legal voters; and for this purpose none shall be considered as legal voters who are not either natural born or naturalized male citizens of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years.
Congress shall provide for ascertaining the number of said voters. A true census of the legal voters shall be taken at the same time with the regular census.