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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  4. Session: 1866-04-30 12:00:00
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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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The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5539: 1866-04-30 12:00:00

The Joint Committee of Fifteen reports S. Res. 78, S. 292, and S. 293 to the Senate

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S. 292

Shown with amendment 'S. 292: Mr. Stewart's Substitute for S. 292 and S. 293' (e899640)

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A BILL

To provide for restoring to the States lately in insurrection their full political rights.

Whereas it is expedient that the States lately in insurrection should, at the earliest day consistent with the future peace and safety of the Union, be restored to full participation in all political rights; and whereas the Congress did, by joint resolution, propose for ratification to the legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, an article in the following words, to wit:

"ARTICLE —.

"SECTION 1. All persons (Indians not taxed excepted) born within the limits or under the jurisdiction of the United States, and all persons naturalized under its laws, are, and shall be, both citizens of the United States and citizens of the several States within which they reside, and nNo State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of such citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; notr deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

"SECTION 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever, in any State, the elective franchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation in such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age.

"SECTION 3. Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafter be incurred, in aid of insurrection or of war against the United States, or any claim for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor.

"SECTION 4. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article:"

Now, therefore—

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That until the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, all persons who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for representatives in Congress and for electors for President and Vice-President of the United States.

"SEC. 2. And be TION 4. Neit further enacted, That no person shall be eligible to any office under the government of the United States who is included innor any of the foState shallowing classes, namely:

First. The president and vice-president of the Confederate Stume or pay any debt or obligates of America, son called, and the heads of departments thereof.

Second. Those who in otready incurred, or which may her countries acted as agents of the Confederate States of America, so called.

Third. Heads be incurred, in aid of departments of the United States,insurrection officers of the warmy and navy ofgainst the United States, and all persons educated at the military or naval academy of the United States, judges of the courts of the United States, and memberor any claim for compensation for loss of either house of the thirty-sixth Congress of the United States, who gave aidinvoluntary service or comfort to the late rebellionbor.

Fourth"SECTION 5. Those who acted as officers of the Confederate States of America, so called, above the grade of colonel iCongress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the army or master in the navy; and any provisione who, as governor of either of the so-called Confederate States, gave aid or comfort to the late rebellion.is article:"

Now, therefore—

Fifth. Those who have treBe it enacted by the Senate and officers or soldiers or sailors of the army or navyHouse of Representatives of the United States, captured during the late war, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war.

SEC. 3. And be it further enact of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the above-recited amendment shall have become part of the Constitution of the United States, and any State lately in insurrection shall have ratified the same, and shall have modified its constitution and laws in conformity therewith, and shall have consented by an ordinance irrevocable to the conditions of the first and second sections of this act, senators and representatives from such State, if found duly elected and qualified, may, after having taken the required oaths of office, be admitted into Congress as such.

SEC. 42. And be it further enacted, That instead of twhe terms and conditions named in the first, second, and third sections of this act, the following alternative is hereby submitted, viz: That each of said States whose people were lately in insurrection as aforesaid, shall be recognized as having fully and validly resumed its former relations with this government, and its chosen representatives shall be admittfied into the two houses of the national lforegoislature, and a general amnesty shall be proclaimed in regardendment to all persons in such State who were in any way connected with armed opposiConstitution to the government of the United States, and they shall be wholly exonerated from all pains, penalties, test oaths, or ort of ther disabilities to which they may have become liable by reason of their connexion with the rebellion, whenever said State shall have ratifiedrect tax under the said above-recited amendment to the Conact of Augustitution of the United States, and shall have modified its constitution and laws in conformity therewith, and shall also have extended the elective franchise by an, eighteen hundred amendment to its constitution and laws to all classes of citizens without discrimination because of race, color, or previous conditio sixty-one, which may remain of servitude upon the same terms and conditions: Provunpaided, That in case anysuch State shall impos, may be other restrictive qualifications on suffrage than such asmed are founded upon race, color, or previous condition of servitude, paid by such restrictions need not apply to persons now voters unless such State shall elect to make such qualifications applicable to all persons: And provided further, That no person shall be eligible to State; and the payment thereof, upon proper assurany office under the government of the Uniteds from such States who is included in any of to be given to the following classes, namely:

First. The president and vice-presidentSecretary of the Confederate States of America, so called.

Second. Heads of departmentsTreasury of the United States and members of the thirty-sixth C, may be postpongress of the United States who gave aid and comfort to the late rebellion.

Third. Those who have treated officers or soldiers or sailo a period not exceeding ten years of the aromy or navy of the United Staftes captured during the late war otherwisepassage of than lawfully as prisoners of waract.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • S. 292 (introduced on 1866-04-30 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e899546) [This document]
  • S. Res. 78 (introduced on 1866-04-30 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e896842)
  • S. 293 (introduced on 1866-04-30 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e899555)

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