The Second Founding of the American Republic: Creating the Fourteenth Amendment
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This special evening program, presented jointly with Montgomery History, will tell the story of crafting the Fourteenth Amendment in the 39th Congress (1865-1866) and the men who engineered its approval.
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The amendment:
- - guaranteed birthright citizenship and redistributed power in the federal system;
- - prohibited states from infringing the privileges and immunities of U.S. citizens or denying any person due process of the law or equal protection of the laws;
- - required apportionment of the House of Representative on the basis of population and reduced a state’s representation if it excluded any class of males over 21 from voting;
- - prohibited insurrectionists from holding federal or state office unless 2/3 of both houses of Congress granted amnesty;
- - declared the debt of the United States should not be questioned;
- - gave Congress power to enforce the Amendment.
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