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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

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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. The right of citizens of the United States to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

And this and all future proposed amendments to the Constitution, whether proposed by the Congress or a convention called by Congress on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, instead of being submitted to the Legislatures or to conventions of the several States, shall be submitted to the vote of the people of each State; and if a majority of the people entitled to vote on the proposed amendment in three fourths of the several States shall vote in favor of the proposed amendment it shall, to all intents and purposes, be a part of the Constitution.

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  • S. Res. 8 (introduced on 1869-01-23 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e867518) [This document]

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