...Congress commoniy known as the "Civll Rights Rlll," (14 US Stats, at Large, p. 27,) which provide that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indlans not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, and such, citizens of every...

...this pronouncement, because it provided in the first sentence of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866: "That all persons born in the United States and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." The Civil Rights Bill of!866 was considered to...

...this pronouncement, because it provided in the first sentence of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866: "That all persons born in the United States and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was considered...

...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...

...under the Constitution. Yet, with complete unconcern, Congress declared in the Civil Rights Bill that all persons born in the United States and not -subject to any foreign power are citizens of the United States. President Johnson and those who opposed the bill as unconstitutional...

...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,...

...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...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without...

...Amendment, Congress debated the Civil Rights bill. As enacted, the Civil Rights bill provided that "all persons born in the United States and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed" were "citizens of the United States." "Such citizens," the act continued, of every race and color,...

...adoption, the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed. Act of April 9, 1866 (14 Stat. 27). It provided that "all persons born in the United States and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." (Underlined Emphasis Added) The Solicitor for...

...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 subject...any foreign Power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens, of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without...