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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: 1866-04-16 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.

The House of Representatives

The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5602: 1866-04-16 12:00:00

H. Res. 109 and H. Res. 110 are proposed and referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.

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H. Res. 110

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Joint resolution relating to the passage of a law making regulations for the mode of electing members of Congress.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is expedient for Congress to exercise the power granted in section four, article one, of the Constitution for making regulations concerning the times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives by general statute, with a view to prevent the recurrence of contested-election cases in either House arising out of elections conducted under State laws; and also with a view of securing the election of members of Congress by loyal constituencies.

Resolved further, That as means toward the attainment of such results in the election of members of the House of Representatives, it is expedient to include among such rules and regulations in substance the following:

1. A registration of all the electors in each district having the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature in the State in which such district is situated.

2. A provision that such elections shall be conducted independently of the State elections, under the direction of officers whose mode of appointment and whose duties shall be defined in such statute; and that such elections shall be held on the same day in each district in the United States.

3. A requirement that at such elections those registered electors only shall be permitted to vote who shall have proved, in manner to be provided in the regulations, their constant and continuing loyalty to the Government of the United States.

4. Provisions prescribing the conditions upon which those who were excluded for disloyalty may be readmitted to their right of suffrage for members of Congress at such election at some future period.

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