Quill Project

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

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:

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 Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Nelson Taylor

"(June 8th, 1821 -- January 16, 1894) Nelson Taylor was a soldier, businessmen, public servant, president of a board of trustees, sheriff, lawyer, general, and American politician. Taylor was born in South Norwalk Connecticut and moved to California and then New York City in 1855. Taylor was a captain in the 1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (August 1, 1846) and was honorably mustered out in September 18, 1848 in California. He was also commissioned colonel of the 77th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (July 23, 1861) and was brigadier general of Volunteers (September 7, 1862 - January 19, 1863) when he resigned from service. Taylor was a member of the California State senate ( 1850 - 1856), was a president of a board of trustees on the State insane asylum (1850-1856), elected sheriff of San Joaquin County (1855) and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in in 1860. He served several times as city attorney in South Norwalk, Connecticut. He was not successful as a Democratic candidate in the 37th congress or for the 40th Congress. He was elected as a Democrat to the 39th Congress (March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1867). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=T000096]"

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

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