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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:Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
  4. Session: 1866-04-28 10:30:00
  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.

Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction

A special joint committee made up of nine members from the House of Representatives six members of the Senate. This committee was formed to inquire into the condition of the states in rebellion.

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Session 5632: 1866-04-28 10:30:00

The Joint Committee meets; S. Res. 76 is received; the Constitutional Amendment is reconsidered and amended; the portion relating to certain persons to be excluded from office be considered as a separate bill to declare certain persons ineligible to office; the Joint Resolution and the two bills (the result of the original Plan of Reconstruction) are reported to the Senate and House as S. Res. 78/H. Res. 127, S. 292/H. R. 543, and S. 293/H. R. 544; leave is granted to submit a minority report; the injunction of secrecy is partially removed.

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A Bill to Declare Certain Persons Ineligible to Office

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Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall be eligible to any office under the government of the United States who is included in any of the following classes, namely:

First. The President and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America so-called,—the heads of departments thereof.

Second. Those who in other countries have acted as agents of the Confederate States of America, so-called.

Third. Heads of departments in the Government of the United States, officers of the army and navy of the United States, and all persons educated at the naval or military academy of the United States, Judges of the Courts of the United States, and members of either house of the 36th Congress of the United States who aided the late rebellion.

Fourth. Those who acted as officers of the Confederate States of America so-called, above the grade of colonel in the army or master in the navy, and any one who as governor of either of said so-called Confederate States gave aid or comfort to the rebellion.

Fifth. Those who treated officers or soldiers or sailors of the army or navy of the United States, captured, during the late war, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war.

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