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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1866-04-12 00:00:00
  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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Session 8603: 1866-04-12 00:00:00

Mr. Stewart introduces a substitute for S. Res. 48 (S. Res. 62)

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S. Res. 62

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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; also setting forth certain conditions upon which the States, the people of which have been lately in insurrection against the United States, shall be restored to their representation in Congress.

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, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the said Constitution, namely:

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SECTION. 1. All discriminations among the people because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, either in civil rights or the right of suffrage, are prohibited; but the States may exempt persons now voters from restrictions on suffrage hereafter imposed.

SECTION. 2. Obligations incurred in aid of insurrection or of war against the Union and claims for compensation for slaves emancipated, are void, and shall not be assumed nor paid by any State or the United States.

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any one of the eleven States whose inhabitants were lately in insurrection, through a Legislature elected by a constituency restricted in the right of suffrage only by such laws as existed in such State in eighteen hundred and sixty, shall have ratified the foregoing amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and shall have modified its constitution and laws in conformity therewith, then, and in that case, such State shall be recognized as having fully and validly resumed its former relations with this government, and its chosen representatives shall be admitted into the two houses of the national legislature, and a general amnesty shall exist in regard to all persons in such State who were in any way connected with armed opposition to the government of the United States, wholly relieving them from all pains, penalties, or disabilities to which they may have become liable by reason of their connection with said insurrection.

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