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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 House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1866-03-02 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 5584: 1866-03-02 12:00:00

Mr. Baker proposes a joint resolution to amend the Constitution denying anyone who had been in the service of the confederacy a seat in American government; S. 61 continues to be considered

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[H. Res. 91]

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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, (two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, namely:

No person who has voluntarily participated in the civil, military, or naval service of the late so-called confederate States of America, or who has voluntarily adhered to the said so-called confederate States of America by giving them aid and comfort, shall ever be eligible to the office of President or Vice President of the United States, or to the office of Senator or Representative in the Congress of the United States, or to the office of judge, clerk, or reporter of any court of the United States, or to the office of attorney, marshal, or deputy marshal of any judicial district of the United States, or to the office of Attorney General of the United States, or to the office of Secretary or head of bureau of any Executive Department of the United States, or to the office of embassador or other public minister or consul of the United States, or to any military or naval office in the regular Army or in the Navy of the United States; and the Congress shall have power to make all laws, and each House thereof all rules, which may be necessary and proper to carry this article into effect.

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