Congressional (radical) Reconstruction continues: The Republican (nationalist) 40th Constitutional Congress—without a constitutional amendment, and over the veto of War Democrat (constitutionalist) de facto President Andrew Johnson (a Citizen of the confederate State of Tennessee)—passes the Supplementary (second) Reconstruction Act, requiring military commanders in the confederate States to draft procedures for registering freedmen to cast public (American) ballots. The act also gives these generals power to determine the qualifications of those allowed to cast ballots, making it unlikely that the Electorate will be able to elect truly representative legislatures that can fairly evaluate ratification on the unlawfully proposed 14th amendment.
[restored 5/1/2022]
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 194-95.
James M McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, second edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), 524.
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