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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:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1867-01-07 12:00:00
  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.

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The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 8672: 1867-01-07 12:00:00

The House continues to consider H. R. 543

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H. Res. 228

Shown with amendment 'H. Res. 228: Mr. Thayer's Amendment' (e903845)

There are 2 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.
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JOINT RESOLUTION

Declaratory of the meaning of the thirteenth amendment of the Constitution.

Whereas the Congress of the United States at the second session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, proposed to the several States for adoption the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which has now, by the ratification of three fourths of the States of the Union, become part of this Constitution, and which by its terms forever prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted;" and whereas in some parts of this Union it is asserted and maintained that, notwithstanding said amendment, it is lawful to sell or otherwise commit into unofficial subjection to slavery persons who may be convicted of offenses against the law, by reason whereof certain inferior tribunals have adjudged free citizens of the United States to be so disposed of as to re-establish chattel slavery for life or for years, against the principles of the Christian religion, of civilization, and of the Constitution of the United States, which now recognizes no involuntary servitude, except to the law and to the officers of its administration: Now therefore,

Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons who shall hereafter sell,the true intent and meaning of said amendment prohibits slavery or offinvoluntary servitude for sale, or attempt to sell any person or personsever in all forms, except in direct execution of a sentence imposing a definite penalty according to law, which penalty cannot, withomsoever withiut violation of the Constitution, impose any other servitude than the lat of imprisonments of the United States, or who shall make or issue any order for such sale, or who shallr other restraint of freedom under the immediate control of officers of the law and according to the usual course thereof, to the exclusion of all unofficial control of the person so held in anywise participate in such sale or such attempted salervitude; and that all orders, judgments, or who shall hereafter holddecrees authorizing or directing any disposition into involuntary servitude of any person so sold, shall be helwithin the jurisdiction of the United States otherwise than as above declared to be guilty of felony, and shall, upon convilawful, or authorizing or directiong thereof, b sale imprisoned for any period of time not exceeding ten years,son in any case whatever into slavery or fined in a sum not exceedingvoluntary servitude, are and shall be taken thousand dollars or both,held to be in the discreviolation of the court by which such offender shall brteenth amendment to the Constitution aforiesaid, and void.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • S. 1 (introduced on 1867-01-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e870377)
  • H. R. 956 (introduced on 1867-01-08 12:00:00 - CREATE - e903889)

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