 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...  Cyclopedia of Law ... - Page 56by Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...made; and in April of the following year the Civil Rights Act was passed. Its first section declares that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, ex-. 457 eluding Indians not taxed, are "citizens of the United States," and that "such citizens, of... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 914 pages
...jurisdiction of the United States is also answered by the verbiage of the act of 1866. It provides, first, that "all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign powers," and then adds, "excluding Indians not taxed," are citizens. If Indians generally were not... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1985 - 1086 pages
...hold, and convey real and personal property." 10 Section 1 of the Act of Apr. 9, 1866, read in part: "That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, ... are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color,... | |
 | Herbert Hill - Law - 1985 - 476 pages
...official certification of the Thirteenth Amendment, a bill was introduced in the Senate. Section I stated: [A]ll persons born in the United States and not subject...declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1986 - 292 pages
...Fourteenth Amendment, Congress debated the Civil Rights bill. As enacted, the Civil Rights bill provided that "all persons born in the United States and not...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed" were "citizens of the United States." "Such citizens," the act continued, of every race and color,... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - Law - 232 pages
...Sections 1 and 2 of the Act which are pertinent to this examination, provide as follows: Section 1. That all persons born in the United States, and not...declared to be citizens, of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary... | |
 | Charles A. Lofgren - Law - 1988 - 282 pages
...discrimination was deleted, but the enumeration remained. The final version defined as United States citizens "all persons born in the United States and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed." In contrast to the Freedmen's Bureau extension, the bill triggered serious questions about the extent... | |
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