Congressional (radical) Reconstruction continues: The Republican (nationalist) 40th Constitutional Congress—without a constitutional amendment—over the veto of War Democrat (constitutionalist) de facto President Andrew Johnson (a Citizen of the confederate State of Tennessee) passes the fourth Reconstruction Act, allowing for the confederate State Constitutions to be ratified by a majority of those Electors who actually cast public (American) ballots, not a majority of the eligible Electors.
[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), 196.
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, second edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), 538.
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