- Event type: CREATE
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.
The Senate
The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Session 4832: 1865-12-04 12:00:00
The first day of the first session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
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S. Res. 1
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article 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 such legislatures, shall become a part of the Constitution, to wit:
"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to the number of male citizens of the age of twenty-one years having in each State the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. The actual enumeration of such citizens shall be made by the census of the United States."
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Document Timeline
- S. Res. 1 (introduced on 1865-12-04 12:00:00 - CREATE - e125537) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1865-12-04 12:00:00 - OTHER - e125538) [view current proposal at this moment]
- Motion to Refer S. Res. 1 to the Committee on the Judiciary (introduced on 1865-12-13 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e128438)
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- None (introduced on 1865-12-13 12:00:00 - ADOPT_PROPOSAL - e128439) [view current proposal at this moment]