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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  2. Full Record: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1865-12-05 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

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.

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The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5052: 1865-12-05 12:00:00

Papers on contested elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York are presented; E.D Holbrook from Idaho and Francis Thomas from Maryland enter the House; H. R. 1 is introduced and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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H. Res. 3

There are 2 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment of the Constitution of the United States in regard to the apportionment of representatives.

Resolved by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring,) That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be proposed to the several States, and, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution of the United States:

Amend the second section of the first article so far as it provides for the apportionment of the representatives among the States so as to read as follows:

Representatives shall be apportioned among the States which may be within the Union according to their respective legal voters; and for this purpose none shall be named as legal voters who are not either natural-born citizens or naturalized citizens. 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.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • H. Res. 3 (introduced on 1865-12-05 12:00:00 - CREATE - e129739) [This document]
  • H. Res. 5 (introduced on 1865-12-05 12:00:00 - CREATE - e129736)
  • H. Res. 2 (introduced on 1865-12-05 12:00:00 - CREATE - e129741)

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