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.
The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress.
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment of the Constitution of the United States in regard to the debt of the so-called Confederate States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be proposed, 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:
Neither the United States nor any State in the Union shall ever assume or pay any part of the debt of the so-called confederate States of America, or of any State contracted to carry on war with the United States.