To Begin the Nation Anew: Congress, Citizenship, and Civil Rights after the Civil War.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CIVIL rights; EQUAL rights amendments; CITIZENSHIP
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the amendments that conferred citizenship on and secured the civil rights of all natural-born, qualified and naturalized citizens of the United States, including former slaves and free blacks. Legal consequences of the Republican theory of citizenship and congressionally enforceable civil rights; Definition of federal and state jurisdiction over civil rights; Civil rights enforcement.