Quill
  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.

The House of Representatives

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

The Committee Secretary's View The Committee Secretary's View

To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.

Document introduced in:

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

The House continues to consider H. R. 543

Document View (with components):

H. Res. 228

Shown with amendment 'None' (e556288)

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

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 the true intent [-e903845]any person or persons who shall hereafter se[+e903845]d meaning of said amendment prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude forever in a[-e903845]ll,[+e903845] f[-e903845]or offer for sale, or attempt[+e903845]ms, except in direct execution of a sentence imposing a definite penalty according[-e903845] to sell any pers[+e903845]law, whi[-e903845]or who shall hereafter hold in servitude any person so sold, [+e903876]ch penalty cannot, without violati[-e903845]on or persons whomsoever withi[+e903845]f the Constitution, impose any other servitude tha[-e903845]n the l[+e903845]at of [-e903845]impr[-e903845]it[+e903845]sonment[-e903845] of the United States, or who shall make or issu[+e903845]r other restraint of freedom under the immediate control of officers of th[-e903845]e law [-e903845]any order for such sale, or who shall in anywise participate in such sale or such attempted sale, sh[+e903845]d according to the usual course thereof, to the exclusion of all unofficial control of the person so held in servitude; and that [-e903845]all be held to be guilty of felony, and shall, u[+e903845]orders, judgments, or decrees authorizing or directing [-e903845]any[+e903840 -e903845]the [-e903845]sa[-e903840]le or[-e903845] o[-e903840]conviction th[+e903845]ther disposition i[-e903845]nto [-e903845]inv[+e903840 -e903845]o[+e903840]l[+e903840 -e903845]un[+e903840], be imp[+e903845]tary [+e903840 -e903845]servitude of any per[-e903845]son with[-e903845]in the jurisdi[-e903845]ctifor a period of time not exceed[+e903845]on of the United States otherwise than as above declared to be lawful, [-e903845]or auth[+e903840 -e903845]orizi[+e903840]en years, or fined in a sum not exceeding[+e903845]ng or directing the sale of any person in any case whatever into slavery or involuntary servitude,[+e903840 -e903845] [+e903840]are[-e903845] anthous[+e903845]d shdollars or[+e903845]all be [-e903845]taken and[-e903845] he[-e903845]lh, [+e903845]d [-e903845]to b[-e903845]e in discretion of[+e903845]violation of the thirte[-e903845]enth court by which such offender shall be trie[+e903845]amendment to the C[+e903840 -e903845]constitutiona[-e903845]l amendment[-e903840] aforesaid, and therefore[-e903840] 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)

Document Timeline

Other Actions

View document