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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

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

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

Legislative text

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A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

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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

Robert S. Hale

"(September 24, 1822 -- December 14, 1881) Robert Safford Hale was a lawyer, judge, regent of a university, counsel for the United States, commissioner, and American politician. Hale was born in Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont and moved to Elizabethtown, New York in 1847. Hale studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Hale was a judge of Essex County (1856-1864), appointed as a regent of the University of New York, New York City (1859), was special counsel of the United States charged with the defense of the "abandoned and captured property claims" (1868-1870), agent and counsel for the United States before the American and British Mixed Commission under the Treaty of Washington (1871 - 1873), and was appointed a commissioner of the State survey from April 29, 1876 to his death. Hale was elected as a Republican to the 39th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orlando Kellogg (December 3, 1866 - March 3, 1867) and to the 43rd Congress (March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875). During his time in congress, he served as Chairmen on the Committee on District of Columbia (43rd Congress) was not a candidate for reelection in 1874. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000037]"

Member of New York Delegation - United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866 , New York Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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