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  1. Overview: The Road to Civil War
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  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1861-01-14 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

The Road to Civil War

The House of Representatives

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Session 11968: 1861-01-14 12:00:00

Mr. English and Mr. Florence present resolutions on the Crittenden Compromise. The Committee of Thirty-Three reports.

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H. Res. 80

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Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representa-tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring. That the following arti-cle 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, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution,

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ARTICLE XIII No amendment of this Constitution having for its object any interference within the States with the rela-tion between their citizens and those described in section sec-ond of the first article of the Constitution as “all other per-sons,” shall originate with any State that does not recognize that relation within its own limits, or shall be valid without the assent of every one of the States composing the Union.

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