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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H. Res. 39 is referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; H. Res. 1 is considered by the committee
[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.]