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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  2. Full Record: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Committee:House Committee on the Judiciary
  4. Session: 1865-12-15 10:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

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.

House Committee on the Judiciary

The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress.

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Session 12986: 1865-12-15 10:00:00

H. R. 1 continues to be considered; H. R. 3 is considered; H. Res. 1 is recommended by the committee

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H. Res. 1

There is 1 proposed amendment related to this document on which a decision has not been taken.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to apportion representatives according to the number of voters in the several States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concurring,) That the following 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 such legislatures, shall become a part of the said Constitution, in place of the third paragraph of the second section of the first article, to wit:

Representatives shall be appointed among the several States which may be included within this Union according to the number of male citizens over twenty-one years of age having the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. The Congress, at their first session after the ratification of this amendment by the required number of States, shall provide by law for the actual enumeration of such voters; and such actual enumeration shall be separately made in a general census of the population of all the States within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as the Congress may by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every hundred thousand of actual population, but each State shall have at least one representative.

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  • H. Res. 1 (introduced on 1865-12-15 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e869927) [This document]
  • H. Res. 3 (introduced on 1865-12-15 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e839476)

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