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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:

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SEC. 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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. Representationves shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State of male citizens of the U, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denited States overto any portion of its male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age qualified by, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the lawbasis of representation in such State to choose members ofshall be reduced in the mostproportion which the numberous branch of of male citizens Legislature, and includingshall bear to the whole number of such male citizens as are disqualified for participating in rebellion. not less than twenty-one years of age.

SEC. 3. Direct taxes shall be apportioned among theUntil the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and several States accordingnty, all persons who voluntarily adhered to the value of the reallate insurrection, giving it aid and personal taxable property situatedcomfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for representatives in each State not belonging to the State or toCongress and for electors for President and Vice President of the United States.

SEC. 4. Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafter be incurred, in aid of insurrection or of war against the United States, or any claim for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor.

SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

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