 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional history - 1900 - 444 pages
...house, became a law April Cth, 1866. It is known as The Civil Rights BillIt declares that all persona born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are citizens of the United States ; and all such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - Forensic orations - 1901 - 776 pages
...act, passed April 20, 187i. The Civil Rights Act is first in order of time. Section i, after declaring that all persons born in the United States, and not...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are citizens of the United States, enacts, that " such citizens, of every race and color, without regard... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...were entitled to its protection.2 The question was one of jurisdiction. The civil rights law declared that all persons born in the United States, and not...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, were citizens. The definition was explicit and comprehensive and the resolution should be amended accordingly.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Legislative hearings - 1963 - 1602 pages
...amendment was followed by the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, which, among other things, provided that "all persons born in the United States, and not...excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to I* citizens of the United States." 14 Stat 27. The power of Congress, in this mode, to elevate the... | |
 | Alexander M. Bickel - Law - 1975 - 174 pages
...the Civil Rights Act of 1866. With the express intention of overruling Dred Scott, the act declared that "all persons born in the United States and not...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States."8 This was the first authoritative definition of citizenship in American law. It had become... | |
 | Genna McNeil - Law - 1983 - 340 pages
...Act 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... | |
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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... 
