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Tag Archives: Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution
define citizen
The magic number was .75, or at least that was the magic constant and had been since the U.S. federal constitution was promulgated in 1788. According to Article 5 of the Constitution, a proposed amendment that has been approved by … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, American History, The election of 1920
Tagged Alice Paul, Bainbridge Colby, female suffrage, Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution, Henry Rogers Selden, James Middleton Cox, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Noah Webster, Susan B. Anthony, The election of 1920, Ward Hunt, Warren Gamaliel Harding
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standing pat
150 years ago this week President Andrew Johnson delivered his second annual message to Congress. Despite the overwhelming Republican victory in Northern states in the 1866 midterm elections, President Johnson did not alter his position: Southern states should be readmitted … Continue reading
litmus test
150 years ago today a Republican newspaper responded to Democratic charges that the new Congress would only re-admit Southern states to the Union if the Republican party was assured of winning the 1868 presidential election. The Republican paper said that … Continue reading
People (Congress) #1
From The New-York Times November 3, 1866: The President and the People. That the dominant sentiment of the country differs at this time more widely than ever from the position of the President, is proven beyond dispute by the result … Continue reading
October surprise?
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in October 1866: Gen. Sherman Endorses the President. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, speaks of this distinguished General: “I am informed that General Sherman has made a second surrender to … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged 1866 Elections, Andrew Johnson, Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction, Reconstruction, Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, William Tecumseh Sherman
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winter wheat
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and … Continue reading
restoration and readmission
On July 18, 1866 Tennessee became the third United state (and first ex-Confederate state) to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On July 24, 1866 both houses of the United States Congress began accepting representatives from Tennessee. … Continue reading
kudos to the chief
On July 22, 1866 President Andrew Johnson reported to Congress that his administration had sent the recently passed Constitutional Amendment to the states for ratification. He used the occasion to explain his opposition to the amendment. He thought it was … Continue reading
southern states’ side
In early June 1866 Congress passed what would become the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 150 years ago today President Andrew Johnson reported to Congress that the amendment had been dutifully sent to the states for their consideration. … Continue reading
“power to enslave”
In early 1866 Congress debated a proposed Constitutional amendment that that would change the apportionment of representatives to Congress. According to the February 1, 1866 issue of The New-York Times the text read: ARTICLE – . Representatives and direct taxes … Continue reading
