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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: 1866-03-08 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 5488: 1866-03-08 12:00:00

S. Res. 40 is proposed; the Senate continues to consider H. Res. 51 in Committee of the Whole

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S. Res. 40

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 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:

ARTICLE —.

No person who has been or shall be willingly engaged in rebellion against the United States shall exercise the elective franchise or hold any office under the authority of the United States or of any State.

ARTICLE —.

Congress shall have power to pass all laws necessary to enforce the foregoing article.

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