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The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments was for
Black Slaves & Children!
The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments have nothing to do with illegal aliens civil rights, because they are here illegally,
so therefore they have no rights.
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery
in the United States.
The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and
should have easily passed the Congress. Although the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. At that point, Lincoln
took an active role to ensure passage through congress. He insisted that passage of the 13th amendment be added to the Republican
Party platform for the upcoming Presidential elections. His efforts met with success when the House passed the bill in January
1865 with a vote of 11956.
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) - Transcript AMENDMENT XIII Section 1.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section
2.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Passed by Congress January 31,
1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by
the 13th amendment.
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th amendment extended liberties and rights
granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
Following the Civil War, Congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee
equal civil and legal rights to black citizens. The major provision of the 14th amendment was to grant citizenship to All
persons born or naturalized in the United States, thereby granting citizenship to former slaves. Another equally important
provision was the statement that nor shall any state deprive any person of live, liberty, or property, without due process
of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The right to due process of law and
equal protection of the law now applied to both the Federal and state governments. On June 16, 1866, the House Joint Resolution
proposing the 14th amendment to the was submitted to the states. On July 28, 1868, the 14th amendment was declared, in a certificate
of the Secretary of State, ratified by the necessary 28 of the 37 States, and became part of the supreme law of the land.
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15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American
men the right to vote.
To former abolitionists and to the Radical Republicans in Congress who fashioned Reconstruction after the Civil War,
the 15th amendment, enacted in 1870, appeared to signify the fulfillment of all promises to African Americans. Set free by the 13th amendment, with citizenship guaranteed by the 14th amendment, black males were given the vote by the 15th amendment. From that point on, the freedmen were generally expected to fend
for themselves. In retrospect, it can be seen that the 15th amendment was in reality only the beginning of a struggle for
equality that would continue for more than a century before African Americans could begin to participate fully in American public and civic life. African Americans exercised the franchise and held office in many Southern states through the 1880s, but in the early 1890s, steps were taken
to ensure subsequent white supremacy. Literacy tests for the vote, grandfather clauses excluding from the franchise all whose
ancestors had not voted in the 1860s, and other devices to disenfranchise African Americans were written into the constitutions of former Confederate states. Social and economic segregation were added to black Americas
loss of political power. In 1896 the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson legalized separate but equal facilities for the races. For more than 50 years, the overwhelming majority of African American citizens were reduced to second-class citizenship under the Jim Crow segregation system. During that time, African Americans sought to secure their rights and improve their position through organizations such as National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and the National Urban League and through the individual efforts of reformers like Booker T. Washington,
W.E.B. DuBois, and A. Philip Randolph. The most direct attack on the problem of African American disfranchisement came in 1965. Prompted by reports of continuing discriminatory voting practices in many Southern states,
President Lyndon B. Johnson, himself a southerner, urged Congress on March 15, 1965, to pass legislation which will make it
impossible to thwart the 15th amendment. He reminded Congress that we cannot have government for all the people until we first
make certain it is government of and by all the people. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, abolished all remaining deterrents to exercising the franchise and authorized Federal
supervision of voter registration where necessary. (Information excerpted from Milestone Documents [Washington,
DC: The National Archives and Records Administration, 1995] pp. 61-63.)
 The Invaders
The illegal invaders often quote the "Declaration
of Independence' for rights they think they have, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness Amen", But unfortunately, the Declaration has nothing to do with illegal invaders
(none US citizens). It was put into effect due to the order of the British King and drafted by Thomas Jefferson
between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration
of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American
people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed
by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against
the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. Link to Article
These people do not respect the United States and our laws. They
fly their country flags on their houses, and in our faces without any respect. Further more this country was not built
by 'Mexicans', as they would like you to believe, but this country was built on the backs of black SLAVES (FREE LABOR). African
Americans lives and children lives was taken away for the greater ‘USA’. Illegal
Mexicans do not have the right to claim rights, they are dead wrong on that issue. The illegal invaders have no
'Civil Rights', this right and plight belongs to the African-American people, who marched, bled, was beaten, and lynched for
the cause; do not compare the two, it does not equate.
I have a solution for the illegal invaders, go back
to your country and overthrow your corrupted government and demand your rights there, where you have rights. Demand
President FOX, to give the money's to the people, not to himself and political cronies. Take back your own country and
leave the American’s alone. America owes nothing to the illegal invaders.
The History:
In June 1776, as Thomas Jefferson composed a draft
of the Declaration of Independence from a second floor parlor of a bricklayer's house in Philadelphia, the largest invasion force in British military history was headed for New York Harbor.
By the time the last of the fifty-six signers had affixed their names to the final, edited document months later, an invading
force of British soldiers had landed at Staten Island, the British had taken New
York City, and the American patriots had committed
themselves to a long and bloody struggle for liberty and independence.
The Declaration
announced to the world the separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain
and the establishment of the United
States of America. It explained
the causes of this radical move with a long list of charges against the King. In justifying the Revolution, it asserted a
universal truth about human rights in words that have inspired downtrodden people through the ages and throughout the world
to rise up against their oppressors.
Jefferson was not
aiming at originality. The Declaration articulates the highest ideals of the Revolution, beliefs in liberty, equality, and
the right to self-determination. Americans embraced a view of the world in which a person's position was determined, not by
birth, rank, or title, but by talent, ability, and enterprise. It was a widely held view, circulated in newspapers, pamphlets,
sermons, and schoolbooks; but it was Thomas Jefferson, the 33-year-old planter from Virginia, who put the immortal words to it.
On July
4, 1776, Congress completed its editing of the document that reduced the text by 25 percent ("mutilations" is what Jefferson
called it) and formally adopted the Declaration; on July 19, Congress ordered that a formal copy of the Declaration be prepared
for members to sign; and on August 2, the final parchment–the one presently displayed in the nearby case–was presented
to Congress and the signing began.
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