The Republican (nationalist) 39th Constitutional Congress (elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]) passes the Emergency Session Act of 1867, calling the Republican 39th Congress into emergency session, the day after the 40th Constitutional Congress adjourns on March third, rather than its normal first Monday in December. This is to prevent War Democrat (constitutionalist) de facto President Johnson (a resident of the confederate State of Tennessee) from carrying out the lenient reconstruction policies of the late-Republican President Lincoln.
[restored 5/1/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I, Section 4 [Clause 1]
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References:
An Act to Fix regular meetings of Congress on March 4, 1867, 14 Public Statutes at Large 378 (1867).
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 194.
James M McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, second edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), 523.
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