 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...  The Reconstruction Period - Page 173by Peter Joseph Hamilton - 1905 - 571 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States - 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... | |
 | Slavery - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - Citizenship - 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,... | |
 | Lillian Foster - Presidents - 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...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. This provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 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...to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, aro hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color,... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar, Simon Stern, James K. Hamilton Willcox - Social sciences - 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 826 pages
...and iu the eyes of God. " To accomplish this great purpose, the bill declares, in the first place, that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, are citizens of the United States. Now, I do not regard that as the enunciation of any new principle.... | |
| |
