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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:Senate Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1866-05-23 00:00:00
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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.

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Session 5692: 1866-05-23 00:00:00

The Senate considers H. Res. 127 in Committee of the Whole

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H. Res. 127

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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 as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely:

ARTICLE —.

SEC. 1. All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of persons born incitizens of the United States or naturalized by the laws thereof; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

SEC. 2. No class of persons as to the right of any of whom to suffrage discrimination shall be made, by anyRepresentatives shall be apportioned among the several State, shalls which may be included within the basis of representation, unless such discrimination bis Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole in virtumber of impartial qualifications founded onpersons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any Statellige the elective franchise orshall be denied to any propertyion of its male inhabitants, being citizens of the United States,, or becaus not less than twenty-one years of alienage, or in any way abridged, orexcept for participation in rebellion or other crime.

SEC. 3. The public debt, the basis of the United States, including representation in such State shall debts or obligabe reduced in the proportions which thave numbeen or mrftebe incurin suppressing or in carrying on war in defense ofUnion, orpayment of bountiepensionsr of male citizens shall bear to the whole number of such male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age incto such war and provided for by law, in suchState.

SEC. 4. Neither the United States nor any State shall be inviolable. Butassume or pay any debts or obligations which have been already incurred, or which may hereafter be incurred, in aid of insurrection or of war against the United States, or andy claims of for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor, shall not be assumed or paid by any State nor by the United States.

SEC. 45. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

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