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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1866-02-19 12:00:00
  5. 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.

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The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5575: 1866-02-19 12:00:00

Mr. McKee introduces H. Res. 70; The Committee on Elections reports on the Indiana Washburn V. Voorhees contested election; The Pennsylvania Coffroth V. Koontz contested election is resolved in Mr. Coffroth's favor

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Resolutions to Adequately Punish Rebels

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1. Resolved, That it is the sense of this house all just and righteous governments are intended not to confer rights and privileges upon the subjects thereof, but to secure to each and every individual the full, free, and untrammeled exercise and enjoyment of all those rights which God has bestowed upon him.

2. Resolved, That the safety, happiness, and prosperity of the people require that just and adequate penalties be annexed to the violation of law, and that those penalties be inflicted upon transgressors, not for the purpose of retaliation or revenge, but to insure subordination and obedience.

3. Resolved, further, That we will stand by and sustain the President in executing the laws of the United States upon a sufficient number of leading rebels in each of the States lately in insurrection against the national government to vindicate the majesty of the law, to sustain the confidence of loyal people, and warn the refractory for all time to come.

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