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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
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  3. Committee:Senate Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1869-01-23 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

United States Fifteenth Amendment

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Session 6607: 1869-01-23 12:00:00

The Senate proceeds to consider S. Res. 8 as in Committee of the Whole

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S. Res. 8

Shown with amendment 'S. Res. 8: Mr. Buckalew's Amendment' (e867527)

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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, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely:

ARTICLE XV.

Sec. 1. No State shall deny or abridge the right of its citizens to vote and hold office on account of race, color, or previous condition.

Sec. 2. The Congress, by appropriate legislation, may enforce the provisions of this article.

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The second clause, first section, article two of the Constitution shall be amended to read as follows:

Each State shall appoint, a vote of the people thereof qualified to vote for Representatives in Congress, if number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an offiforce of trust and profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector; and the Congress shall have power to prescribe the manner in which such electors shall be chosen by the peop shall have power tois articlby apappropriate legislation.

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