- 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 5086: 1865-12-11 12:00:00
Daniel Voorhees from Indiana enters the House; standing and select committees are appointed
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H. Res. 11
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 in lieu of the clause following the word "States" in the first paragraph of section two, article one, of the Constitution of the United States, and of so much of article two as provides for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States and the mode of their election, and also in lieu of amendment twelve to said Constitution, the following article be proposed as an amendment to said Constitution, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of said Constitution, to wit:
ARTICLE —.
SECTION 1. In all elections of President and Vice-President the ballots shall be cast directly for persons to fill said offices, and the person having the highest number of votes for each office shall be declared elected to such office.
SECTION 2. In the election of President and Vice-President, and of members of the House of Representatives, the following described persons, and those only, shall have the right to vote, to wit: Male citizens of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, not under conviction for infamous crime, who can read, and who shall have resided for one year in the State and for six months in the district in which they shall offer to vote.
SECTION 3. Congress shall have power to pass laws providing for the registration of voters, for ascertaining their qualifications, for the times and manner of conducting such elections and for preventing frauds therein, and for declaring their result.
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Document Timeline
- H. Res. 11 (introduced on 1865-12-11 12:00:00 - CREATE - e899063) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1865-12-11 12:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e238506) [view current proposal at this moment]