 | 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 852 pages
...be declared unconstitutional by courts of competent jurisdiction. By that act it is enacted " 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 ; and such citizens,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 pages
...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 subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and snch citizens... | |
 | 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 to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. This provision comprehends... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 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 to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared ,to be citizens of the United States. This provision comprehends... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 826 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 796 pages
...bill, the first of the permanent measures of reconstruction on the Congressional plan, provided that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, should be declared and considered citizens of the United States, and that... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 624 pages
...shall be a party in interest." By the act of Congress of the 9th of April, 1866, it is provided, " that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not Turner v. Parry. taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United Mates;... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication. Se it enacted, etc., 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; and such citizens,... | |
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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... 
