 | 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... | |
 | Lillian Foster - Presidents - 1866 - 322 pages
...return it to the Senate (the House in which it originated) with my objections to its becoming a law. By the first section of the bill, all persons born in...provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific States, Indians subject to taxation, the people called Gipsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 852 pages
...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...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens, of every race and color, without... | |
 | British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 pages
...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...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and snch citizens of every race and colour, witbout... | |
 | John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...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...any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens of every race and color, without... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...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 of every race and color,... | |
 | 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 power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without... | |
 | 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 power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens of every race and color, without... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...legal qualifications. By the act of congress of April 9, 1866, it is provided " that all persons bom 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, of every race and color, without... | |
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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... 
