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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 Senate
  4. Session: 1866-01-29 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 Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5188: 1866-01-29 12:00:00

S. 106 is proposed; the Senate continues considering S. 61, as in Committee of the Whole

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S. 106

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A BILL

To protect citizens of the United States in their civil and political rights.

Whereas the Constitution of the United States abolishes slavery in all the States and Territories of the United States, whereby all constitutions, laws, or regulations of any State or Territory in aid of slavery, or growing out of the same, are null and void; and whereas by virtue of said abolition of slavery all men in all the States and Territories are citizens, entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens, subject only to the legal disabilities applicable to white persons; and whereas it is also expressly provided that Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the aforesaid power abolishing slavery, which cannot be done without protecting all citizens against all restrictions, penalties, or deprivations of right resulting from slavery, and securing to them all their civil and political rights, including the elective franchise: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no State or Territory of the United States shall, by any constitution, law, or other regulation whatever, heretofore in force or hereafter to be adopted, make or enforce, or in any manner recognize, any distinction between citizens of the United States, or of any State or Territory, on account of race, color, or condition; and that hereafter all citizens of the United States, without distinction of race, color, or condition, shall be protected in the full and equal enjoyment of all their civil and political rights, including the right of suffrage.

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