Authors: United States Congress

1860–1877

Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson

Source: “Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson,” available online at The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/john_chap_07.asp#articles. Article I That said Andrew Johnson, president of the United States . .

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1929–1941

The Norris-La Guardia Act

Source: 29 U.S. Code Title 29, Chapter 6, §101-110, Online from Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/chapter-6. No court of the United States, as defined in this chapter,

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1860–1877

The Enforcement Acts

Source: Statutes at Large, Forty First Congress, Second Session, May 31, 1870, 140–46, https://goo.gl/Yuvqn8; Statutes at Large, Forty Second Congress, First Session, April 20, 1871, 13–15, https://goo.gl/gWhrko. The Enforcement Act,

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1860–1877

The 15th Amendment

Source: Statutes at Large, Fortieth Congress, Third Session, February 27, 1869, p. 346. https://goo.gl/zSQZPZ. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied

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1860–1877

Congressional Debate on the 14th Amendment

Source: 14th Amendment, Statutes at Large, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 358–59, https://goo.gl/TraZUU; Congress Debates the 14th Amendment, Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 1083, 1095, 2459, 2462, 2542, 2765.

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1860–1877

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution

Source: Transcript of 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865), Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. https://goo.gl/8PQnBs. Section 1.

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