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 House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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The Committee of Elections reports resolutions in the Pennsylvania Coffroth V. Koontz contested election; Mr. Orth submits a resolution to instruct the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Resolved, That the committee on reconstruction be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting to this House an amendment to the Constitution providing that no person who held any office, civil or military, in the so-called confederacy, shall ever be eligible to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government.