| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 426 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...excluding Ind.ians, not taxed, are hereby declared tp be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any... | |
| George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...:— ' cltiien. br " Be it enacted, dc., That all persons born in the United States, KÍ¿¿UBIU» and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." 14 St. *"5 p. 27, § 1 ; Paschal's Annotated Digest, Art. 5:t82. There can be no doubt of... | |
| George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 538 pages
...— " the'cí'vií'7 " Be it enaclrd, &c., That all persons born in the United States, Bights* Bill f and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." ]4 St. 2'5 p. 27, § 1 ; Paschal' s Annotated Digest, Art. 5382. There can be no doubt of... | |
| William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 684 pages
...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... | |
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