| 1868 - 828 Seiten
...in 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.... | |
| Henry Wilson - 1868 - 486 Seiten
...the United States." Mr. Trumbull modified his amendment to the first section so as to make it read, " All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, without distinction of color." Mr. Cowan earnestly... | |
| William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 726 Seiten
...Maryland, with thirty others, voted in the affirmative. So we have his high authority for saying that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign Power, are citizens of the United States, exactly as it appears in this bill." " Mr. Yates, of Illinois, remarked... | |
| Frederick Charles Brightly - 1869 - 680 Seiten
...citizens. Ibid. { 2. Penalty for depriving any citizen of his civil rights by reason of color or race. 1. All persons born in the Unit }. are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; (6) and such citizens, of every race and... | |
| 1870 - 546 Seiten
...Congress commonly known as tho " Civil Rights Bill " (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 Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, and such citizens of every race and color... | |
| 1870 - 546 Seiten
...known as the " Civil Rights Bill " (14 US Stats, at Large, p. Ï7), which provide that "all persone 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 of every race ana color... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1889 - 1164 Seiten
...act of Congress of April 9, 1800 (now section 1992 of the Revised Statutes), which provides that — All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indiana not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. (b) In section I of the xivth... | |
| Louisiana - 1870 - 814 Seiten
...who arc citi- States of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the untied states. 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, of every race and color,... | |
| United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1870 - 670 Seiten
...house there situate of Nancy Talbot, a citizen of the United States of the African race, having been born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, who was then and there, and is now, denied the right to testify against the said defendants, in the... | |
| James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 Seiten
...amendment had been adopted. The first sentence of that law is in these words : "Be it enacted, <te.. 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." My colleague and I then believed, as I now believe, that we were... | |
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