| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 страници
...of the Civil Rights Act, Congress incorporated most of its provisions into the Fourteenth Amendment. I regret that the bill, which has passed both Houses...of their vindication," contains provisions which I can not approve consistently with my sense of duty to the whole people and my obligations to the Consntution... | |
| Jerrold M. Packard - 2002 - 316 страници
...started by approving a civil rights bill whose intention was unmistakable in its floridly hopeful title: "An Act to protect all Persons in the United States...Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication." Repudiating the Supreme Court's calamitous Dred Scott verdict, the act first of all declared African-... | |
| Alexander Tsesis - 2004 - 229 страници
...compromises, and Supreme Court decisions had previously abridged. The Civil Rights Act, officially entitled "An Act to protect all persons in the United...rights, and furnish the means of their vindication," offers a case study into the practical effects that the amendment's framers intended it to have. Congress... | |
| Timothy Flanagan - 2004 - 106 страници
...Lord, are true and righteous altogether." Page 23: Civil Rights Act of 1866 Transcription excerpt AnAct to protect all Persons in the United States in their...Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress... | |
| John Fabian Witt - 2007 - 432 страници
...Statutory History of the United States: Civil Rights 23 (Chelsea House Publishers, 1970) ("obliterate"); "An Act to Protect All Persons in the United States...Rights, and Furnish the Means of Their Vindication," 14 Statutes at Large 27 (1866) (Civil Rights Act). 42. "A Remarkable Man for Liberia," African Repository,... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 648 страници
...States." This celebrated " Civil Rights Bill," the President vetoed in the following message : — "To THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: — "I regret that...of their vindication,' contains provisions which I can not approve consisttently with my sense of duty to the whole people, and my obligations to the... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 844 страници
...Huntington to Johnson, Mar. 28, 1866, ibid. Veto of Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 1866. To the Senate of the United States: I regret that the...of their vindication," contains provisions which I can not approve consistently with my sense of duty to the whole people and my obligations to the Constitution... | |
| United States. President - 1897 - 602 страници
...8th day of January last, requesting the President to inform the Senate if any violations of the act entitled ' 'An act to protect all persons in the United...rights and furnish the means of their vindication" have come to his knowledge, and, if so, what steps, if any, have been taken by him to enforce the law... | |
| William MacDonald - 1916 - 684 страници
...Exec. Doc. 29, 39th Cong., 2d Sess.; for State laws relating to freedmen see Senate Exec. Doc. 6, ibid. An Act to protect all Persons in the United States...Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication. Be it enacted . . . , That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power,... | |
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