...132 was to provide a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which provided that all persons born in the United States and not subject...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, without...

...i866, and the Fourteenth (i868) and Fifteenth Amendments (1870). The i866 statute specified that “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power” were citizens who, regardless of “race and color,” were entitled to “make and enforce contracts,...

...1866 7 was directed against the Black Codes. Section 1 of the Act provided, in relevant part: [Ajll persons born in the United States and not subject...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, without...

...form to them. The first section of the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, included this language: All persons born in the United States and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without...

...measure on March 27. Two weeks later it was passed over his veto. The Act extended citizenship to "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power ... of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."...

...territories. This view of citizenship was adopted in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which provided that "[a]ll persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power ... arc hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color,...

...Scott was invalidated after the Civil War by the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which declared that "All persons born ... in the United States and not subject...not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States." 13 Jus soli subsequently became part of the organic law of the land in the form of the Fourteenth...

...United States, including children born to aliens. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 provides that "[A]ll persons born in the United States, and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." During the debates on the Act. the Chair of the...

...purposes. The Act first specified the prerequisites to becoming a citizen of the United States: "That all persons born in the United States and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." 42 Since the Act endowed African Americans with...

...United States, including children born to aliens. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 provides that "[Ajll persons born in the United States, and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." During the debates on the Act, the Chair of the...