| Alexander Del Mar - 1865 - 902 pages
...To insure justice to the freedmen in all courts, they defined citizens of the United States to be " all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power ; " and provided that all citizens should be equal in all courts. 5. To break up the hold of the aristocracy... | |
| British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 pages
...Mr. Johnson endeavoured to perpctrate upon freedom by his presidential vcto. " Be it Unacted, t'c., That all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and snch citizens... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1866 - 852 pages
...may not be declared unconstitutional by courts of competent jurisdiction. By that act it is enacted " that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens,... | |
| John Savage - 1866 - 610 pages
...enacted tn/ the Senate and Home of Eepresentatwes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1866 - 164 pages
...United States in their civil rights, and\ furnish the means of their vindication. Be it enacted, &c., That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, aro hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens... | |
| Alexander Del Mar, Simon Stern, James K. Hamilton Willcox - 1866 - 474 pages
...To insure justice to the freedmen in all courts, they denned citizens of the United States to be " all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power ; " and provided that all citizens should be equal in all courts. 5. To break up the hold of the aristocracy... | |
| Lillian Foster - 1866 - 322 pages
...in which it originated) with my objections to its becoming a law. By the first section of the bill, all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. This provision comprehends... | |
| William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 716 pages
...from Maryland, with thirty others, voted in the affirmative. So we have his high authority for saying that all persons born in the United States, and not...foreign Power, are citizens of the United States, exactly as it appears in this bill." " Mr. Yates, of Illinois, remarked: " I remember very well that... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1868 - 624 pages
...shall be a party in interest." By the act of Congress of the 9th of April, 1866, it is provided, " that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not Turner v. Parry. taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United Mates;... | |
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