- United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866 Summary Statistics
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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.
Cite as: Erica Croft, Kiana McAllister, Annabel Harris, Lauren Davis, Elizabeth Green, Louise Navarro-Cann, Mary Nelson-Hill, Mizuki Hassell, Grace Penn, Paul Calica, Matt Rands, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2024).
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A summary view for the full record of the convention
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Sources:
13 historical records used for this dataset.
Process:
17 committees met in 458 sessions. Average 35.23076923076923 sessions each.
Dates from Monday, 04 December 1865 to Saturday, 02 March 1867.
People:
275 people in 28 voting delegations.
Top 5 most active people are:
- Schuyler Colfax (430 events)
- Thaddeus Stevens (366 events)
- Lafayette S. Foster (249 events)
- John A. Bingham (187 events)
- Reverdy Johnson (152 events)
Summary of person events:
- 561
join a committee. - 8
leave a committee. - 13
elections to a position.
Procedures:
2772 procedural motions considered.
Summary of procedural events:
- 2772
procedural motion proposed. - 434
motions debated.
Documents:
285 documents considered with 390 amendments presented.
Summary of document events:
- 285
new documents created. - 226
documents passed from another committee. - 390
amendments to a document proposed. - 946
debates on a proposal.
Decisions:
3355 number of decisions made.
Summary of decision made:
- 1984
proposals adopted. - 374
proposals rejected. - 135
proposals referred to another committee. - 20
debate of a proposal postponed. - 160
proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote. - 62
some other decision on a proposal.