| 1836 - 494 pages
...right and constitutional power to pass the bill which I have proposed, protecting the inhabitants, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery, in all their civil and political rights, including the right of suffrage. The Dred Scott decision is... | |
| 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... | |
| 1865 - 730 pages
...denied to negroes, mulattocs, freedmen, refugees, or any other persons, on accountof race, color, or any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall nave been duly convicted, or wherein they or any of them are subjected... | |
| 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...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and... | |
| 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...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State... | |
| 1866 - 278 pages
...to be so regarded." CIVIL EIGHTS BILL. AS ADOPTED BY CONGRESS, MABOH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall... | |
| 1866 - 288 pages
...to be so regarded." CIVIL EIGHTS BILL, AS ADOPTED BY CONOEES8, MARCH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall... | |
| 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...declared to be citizens of the United States ; and snch citizens of every race and colour, witbout regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary... | |
| W. Divoll - 1866 - 158 pages
...VINDICATION. 1. All persons bom in the United States,, and not subject to anyforeign power, excluding Indiana not taxed, are hereby declared. to be citizens of...without regard to any previous condition of slavery orinvoluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof +he party shall have been duly convicted,... | |
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