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" That, until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority... "
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d ... - Page 10
by United States. Congress. House - 1868
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Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880

Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1122 pages
...aimed, not against the laws, but against the State governments. The language of the 6th section is, "any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only." It was the government and not the laws which were to be subject to the paramount authority of the United...
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Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876

John William Burgess - Constitutional law - 1902 - 374 pages
...civil government which might exist in these districts should be regarded as provisional, and should be in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States, which should control, and might abolish, modify, or supersede the same, and that the voters for the...
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Select Statutes and Other Documents Illustrative of the History of the ...

William MacDonald - History - 1903 - 464 pages
...shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same ; and in all elections to any office under...
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The Historians' History of the World: The United States (concluded), Spanish ...

Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...shall be by law admitted to representation in the congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same." Such was this extraordinary act. This...
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Division and Reunion, 1829-1889

Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1905 - 378 pages
...soon as its new legislature had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. Meanwhile its government was to be deemed " provisional only, and in all respects...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, control, or supersede the same." Such was the policy of "Thorough" to which Congress...
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American Political History, 1763-1876, Volume 2

Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 624 pages
...representation in Congress. 6. Until thus reconstructed, the civil governments of the rebel States were to be "deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same"; and, "in all elections under such provisional...
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The Reconstruction Period, Volume 16

Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...of Pope, Sheridan, and possibly of Sickles. Existing civil governments in the Southern States were "deemed provisional only and in all respects subject...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." This recognized these existing governments,...
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Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877

John Schreiner Reynolds - Reconstruction - 1905 - 544 pages
...further enacted "that until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be provisional only and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any...
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Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social ..., Volume 1

Walter Lynwood Fleming - Buildings - 1906 - 544 pages
...shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify or control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under...
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A History of the American People, Volume 5

Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 394 pages
...so soon as its legislature had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. Meanwhile, its government was to be deemed "provisional only, and in all respects subject...to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, control, or supersede THE RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS. STRUGGLE FOR THE FLAG it." The...
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