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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

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

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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:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

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 Fifteenth Amendment

Joseph C. Abbott

"(July 15, 1825 -- October 8, 1881) Joseph Carter Abbot was a(n) lawyer, owner and editor of a newspaper, general, soldier, collector of port, inspector of posts, establisher of a town, manufacturer of lumber, editor of multiple newspapers, special agent, and American politician. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire and moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. Abbot was a owner and editor of the Daily American (1852-1856), editor of the Boston Atlas (1859), and editor of the Washington Post. He served as a member of the commission to adjust the boundary between New Hampshire and Canada, delegate to the State constitution convention (1868), collector of the port of Wilmington, inspector of posts along the eastern line of the sourthern coast, established the town of Abbotsburg, North Carolina, and was employed as a special agent in the United States Treasury Department. Joseph was adjutant general of New Hampshire (1855 - 1861), served in the Union Army (1861 - 1865), breveted brigadier general, and was commandant of Wilmington, North Carolina. Abbot was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (July 14, 1868 - March 3, 1871). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=A000006]"

Member of North Carolina Delegation - United States Fifteenth Amendment [this display], North Carolina Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 .

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