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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

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Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Alexander H. Stephens

(February 11, 1812 — March 4, 1883) Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a teacher, lawyer, and politician. Stephens was born in Crawfordville, Georgia in 1812. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1832. After teaching school for a time, Stephens studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He served in the State House of Representatives (1836-1841) and in the State Senate (1842). Stephens was elected as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives and served during the Twenty-Eighth through the Thirty-First Congresses. He then ran as a Unionist and was elected to the Thirty-Second Congress, and served during the three succeeding Congresses as a Whig. During the Civil War, Stephens served in the Confederate Congress and was chosen by the Confederate Congress to act as Vice President of the provisional government. After the war, he was elected again to the United States House of Representatives, this time as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Ambrose Wright. He served from December 1, 1873 to November 4, 1882, when he resigned, having been elected Governor of Georgia. He served in that capacity until his death in 1883. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000854]

Member of Georgia Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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