- 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 House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Session 5570: 1866-02-06 12:00:00
Mr. Wilson moves to reconsider the vote in which referred S. 61 to the Committee on the Judiciary; Mr. Morris proposes H. R. 256
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H. R. 256
A BILL
To secure equal political rights to every citizen of the United States.
Whereas the United States are required by the Constitution thereof "to guarantee to every State in this Union" "a republican form of government;" and whereas it is an essential part of such form of government that all the citizens of every State shall have equal rights by the laws thereof; and whereas "the citizens of each State are entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States:"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every citizen of the United States, and every citizen of every State of this Union, who shall have resided in any State thereof for one year, shall be a citizen of such State.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every male citizen of every State in this Union, who is twenty-one years of age, of sound mind, and not a pauper, and who can read the Constitution of the United States in the English language and write his name, and shall have resided in the State of which he is a citizen for one year immediately preceding any election in such State, shall be an elector of all elective officers or legislators chosen at such election; and no person shall be such elector unless he shall have the above qualifications.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not impair or affect the right of any person who, at the time of passing the same, shall be an elector in any State by the laws thereof, until two years after the passing of this act.
Decisions yet to be taken
Document Timeline
- H. R. 256 (introduced on 1866-02-06 12:00:00 - CREATE - e664252) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1866-02-06 12:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e664254) [view current proposal at this moment]