...persons born in the United States, regardless of race. It guaranteed the right of African Americans to "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." The bill also struck down the Southern laws that discriminated against blacks. Even though the Civil...

...Civil Rights Act of 1866, guaranteeing the freed slaves "the same right in every state and territory of the United States, to make and enforce contracts,...parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell and convey real and personal property as is enjoyed by white citizens."12 When President Andrew...

...comprehensive, lawyerly language: it extended to those citizens the "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and [they] shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute,...

...previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, shall have the same right, in every State or Territory in the United States, to make and enforce...proceedings for the security of person and property. This act of Congress is, obviously enough, in conflict with the language of Judge Taney in the Dred...

...— regardless of race or previous condition of slavery — must be afforded "the same right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties and give...real and personal property, and to full and equal benef1t of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property," and also not be subject...

...President's veto, Section 1 of the act ensured that each citizen possesses "the same right ... to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment,...

...such relations, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...hold, and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, personal security,...