 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 968 pages
...Congress before the adoption of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, citizenship was defined as follows : " 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." The presumption is reasonable that, in adopting different... | |
 | Genna McNeil - Law - 1983 - 340 pages
...Act of 1866, and the Fourteenth (1868) and Fifteenth Amendments (1870). The 1866 statute specified that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power" were citizens who, regardless of "race and color," were entitled to "make and enforce contracts, to... | |
 | 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...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1986 - 292 pages
...the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress debated the Civil Rights bill. As enacted, the Civil Rights bill provided that "all persons born in the United States...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...are hereby declared to be citizens, of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery... | |
 | 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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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... 
