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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 toRepresentatives shall be apportioned among the right of any of whom to suffrage discrimination shall be made, by anyseveral States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, shall be inexcluded in the basis of representation, unless suing Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State the elective franch discriminatione shall be in virtuedenied to any portion of its mpartial qualifications founded on intelligence or property, or becausee inhabitants, being citizens of the United States, 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 be reduced in the propor obligations 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,State.

SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congressinhabitants, being of the United States,, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.

SEC. 4. The obligations of the United States incurred in suppressing insurrection, or in defense of the Union, or for payment of bounties or pensions incident thereto, shall remain inviol5 in such Stateate.

SEC. 45. Neither the United States nor any State shall be inviolable. Butassume or pay any debts or obligations which have been incurred in aid of insurrection [or] rebellion against the United States, or andy claims ofon account of the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be forever held illegal and void, shall not be assumed or paid by any State nor by the United States.

SEC. 46. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

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