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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

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Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

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Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Lovell H. Rousseau

"(August 4, 1818 -- January 7, 1869) Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a lawyer, soldier, and American politician. Rousseau was born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Rousseau studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was a member of the Indiana state house of Representatives (1844-1845) and a member of the Indiana State Senate (1847-1849). He was also a member of the Kentucky State Senate (1860-1861). He was a Captain in the Mexican War (1844-1845) and served as a colonel, brigadier general, and major general in the Union Army during the Civil War and resigned November 17, 1865. He was appointed a brigadier general in the U.S. army with the brevet rank of major general (March 27, 1867) and was assigned to duty in Alaska. He was also, on July 28, 1868, placed in command of the Department of Louisiana, serving here until his death in 1869. Rousseau elected as a Unconditional Unionist to the 39th Congress until his resignation on July 21, 1866 (March 4, 1865-July 21, 1866). He was censured by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 17, 1866 for assaulting U.S. representative Justin Grinnell of Iowa in the capitol building. He was reelected in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation (December 3, 1866 - March 3, 1867). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000468]"

Member of Kentucky Delegation - United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866 [this display].

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