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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.
House Committee on the Judiciary
The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress.
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Session 5106: 1865-12-11 00:00:00
The Committee on the Judiciary is appointed in the House
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H. Res. 6
JOINT RESOLUTION
To alter the Constitution of the United States so as to base the representation in Congress upon the number of electors, instead of the population of the several States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sub-division of the second section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is hereby, altered thus:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which are or may be included within this Union according to the number of male electors, over the age of twenty-one years, entitled to vote in those States, respectively, and direct taxes shall be apportioned among those States according to the number of their inhabitants.
The number of electors and inhabitants in the several States shall be ascertained and fixed by actual enumeration once in every period of ten years. The number of representatives shall not one for every twenty thousand electors, but each State shall have at least one representative.
For the first apportionment of representatives, Congress shall ascertain the number of electors in the several States from the enumeration last heretofore made, and until such apportionment shall be done the number of representatives from the several States shall remain as now fixed by law.
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- H. Res. 6 (introduced on 1865-12-11 00:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e130575) [This document]
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- Motion to Report H. Res. 6 and Ask to be Discharged of Its Further Consideration (introduced on 1866-01-23 10:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e842665)
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- None (introduced on 1866-01-23 10:00:00 - ADOPT_PROPOSAL - e842666) [view current proposal at this moment]
- Motion to Report H. Res. 6 and Ask to be Discharged of Its Further Consideration (introduced on 1866-01-23 10:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e842665)
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