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.
The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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The Senate continues to consider H. Res. 51
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 according to the number of male citizens over twenty-one years of age having qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature; citizens possessing like qualifications disfranchised for participation in any rebellion; and persons of like age not naturalized. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every hundred thousand of actual population, but each State shall have at least one Representative.