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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 5632: 1866-04-28 10:30:00
The Joint Committee meets; S. Res. 76 is received; the Constitutional Amendment is reconsidered and amended; the portion relating to certain persons to be excluded from office be considered as a separate bill to declare certain persons ineligible to office; the Joint Resolution and the two bills (the result of the original Plan of Reconstruction) are reported to the Senate and House as S. Res. 78/H. Res. 127, S. 292/H. R. 543, and S. 293/H. R. 544; leave is granted to submit a minority report; the injunction of secrecy is partially removed.
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S. Res. 76
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Be it 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, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of said Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE —.
No payment shall ever be made by the United States or any State for or on account of the emancipation of any slave or slaves, or for or on account of any debt contracted or incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State; but whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denied to any of its inhabitants being male citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, for any cause except insurrection or rebellion against the United States, the basis of representation in such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of male citizens so excluded shall bear to the whole number of male citizens over twenty-one years of age.
SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That whenever any of the States which were declared to be in insurrection by the proclamation of the President of the United States, dated the second day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall ratify the foregoing article, senators and representatives from the States or State so ratifying shall be admitted in the Senate and House of Representatives respectively, in the same manner as if elected from States which have never been declared to be in insurrection.
Decisions yet to be taken
- S. Res. 76 (introduced on 1866-04-28 10:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e740132) [This document]
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- S. Res. 76 (introduced on 1866-04-28 10:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e740132) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]