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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 or naturalized 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 in 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 any State, shall be included in the basis of representation, unless such discriminationthe right to vote at anyon for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the Uin virtuetSates, Representatives in Cngress, the executive and judicial officers ofState, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of thempartial qualifications founded on intelligence or property, or becausesuchbeing of aliena and citizens of the United Statesge or for participation in rebellion or other crime.

SEC. 3. The public debt of the Unitedtheres, including all debts or obligations which have been or mrftebe incurin suppressing or in carrying on war in defense ofUnion, orpayment of bountiepensionssuch incto such war and provided for by law,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. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But n5 in such State4 shall be inviolable. But debts or obligations which have been in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, and claims forfo the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void, 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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