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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.
Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
A special joint committee made up of nine members from the House of Representatives six members of the Senate. This committee was formed to inquire into the condition of the states in rebellion.
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Session 5887: 1865-12-19 00:00:00
The credentials of James M. Johnson and a resolution to make the admission of rebellious states conditional on their acceptance of constitutional amendment are received by the Joint Committee.
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Resolution to Make the Admission of Rebellious States Conditional on Their Acceptance of Constitutional Amendment
Whereas policy, propriety, and duty, all require that the Representatives of a free and loyal constituency should, at the opening of the first Congress after the suppression of the rebellion, see that, in the reorganization and readmission of the States recently in arms against the Government, no possible safeguard be left unprovided which will prevent in the future a recurrence of the troubles of the past; and whereas an attempt to assume the rebel debt in some shape, and to repudiate the national debt in some manner, and also to pay for the slaves who have been made free, are among the possibilities of the future; and whereas the most effectual way of preventing either or all of these would be so to amend the Constitution of the United States as to preclude for all time to come any chance of either of these results: Therefore,
Be it resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, the Constitution of the United States should be so amended, and that no State which has recently been in rebellion against the General Government ought to be entitled to a representation in Congress until such State, by its Legislature or other properly constituted authority, has adopted said amendment.
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- Resolution to Make the Admission of Rebellious States Conditional on Their Acceptance of Constitutional Amendment (introduced on 1865-12-19 00:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e663773) [This document]
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- Resolution to Make the Admission of Rebellious States Conditional on Their Acceptance of Constitutional Amendment (introduced on 1865-12-19 00:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e663773) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]