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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1866-03-09 12:00:00
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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 5489: 1866-03-09 12:00:00

The Senate continues to consider H. Res. 51

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H. Res. 51

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States.

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 the said legislatures, shall be valid as part of said Constitution, viz:

ARTICLE —.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by takcounting the whole number of persons, and in each State, excluding Indians not taxed: Provided, That whenever male citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one yearselective franchise shall be excludenied from the elective franchiseor abridged in any State, except for participation in rebellion, the basis of representati on account of race or color, all persons therein of suchall be reduaced in the proportion which the num color shall ber thus excluded bears tofrom the whole number of male citizenbasis of the United Statrepres over the age of twenty-one years in such Stateation.

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