An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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Reuben Fenton leaves the House of Representatives; More members join the House; H. R. 602 is reported back from the Committee on the Rebellious States with amendments; President's Annual Message is considered in the Committee of the Whole.
A BILL
To guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Senators and Repthe States declared to be in rebellion against the United Statives shall not be received from any, and within which the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States heretofore declared in rebellion againsas been overthrown, shall not be permitted to resume their political relations with the government of the United States until, by an action or jointf the loyal citizens within such States, resolpectively, a State constitution of Congress, approved by tshall be ordained and established, President, or passed notwithstandpublican in form, forever prohibiting his objections,involuntary servitude within such State sh, and guaranteeing to all have been first declared to have organized a just local government, repubpersons freedom and equality of rights before the law.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the State of Louisiana is hereby permitted to resume its politican in form, and to be entl relations with the government of the Unitled to representaStates under the constitution inadopted by the respeconventive Houseson which assembled on the sixth day of CongApril, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at New Orleans.