- Event type: CREATE
The Road to Civil War
Select Committee of Thirty-Three of the House of Representatives
A select committee formed via resolution in reference to the 1860 annual President's Message tasked with examining the condition of the union, exploring the slavery question, and offering solutions to the crisis of secession. The committee was designed to contain one member from each State.
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Session 12578: 1861-01-12 12:00:00
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H. Res. 80
Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representa-tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring. That the following arti-cle 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 said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution,
viz:
ARTICLE XIII No amendment of this Constitution having for its object any interference within the States with the rela-tion between their citizens and those described in section sec-ond of the first article of the Constitution as “all other per-sons,” shall originate with any State that does not recognize that relation within its own limits, or shall be valid without the assent of every one of the States composing the Union.
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Document Timeline
- H. Res. 80 (introduced on 1861-01-12 12:00:00 - CREATE - e827947) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1861-01-12 12:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e827949) [view current proposal at this moment]