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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1866-01-15 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 5469: 1866-01-15 12:00:00

Mr. Delano presented the credentials of members-elect from the State of Arkansas; Mr. Conkling submits a resolution to be referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction; Mr. Orth submits joint resolution H. Res. 39; the House continues to consider H. R. 1

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H. Res. 39

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[JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following amendment be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of said Constitution, namely:

That Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to the number of male citizens over twenty-one years of age, having the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, and that Congress, at their first session after the ratification, shall provide for the actual enumeration of voters, and such actual enumeration shall be separately made in a general census every ten years; the number of Representatives not to exceed one for every one hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants.]

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