Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress - Couverture rigide

United States Congress Joint Committee On Reconstruction

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0837123550 ISBN 13 : 9780837123554

Editeur : Negro Universities Press, 1969

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

President Johnson said, theS tate institutions are prostrated, laid out on the ground, and they must be taken up and adapted to the progress of events. Finding the southernS tates in this condition, and Congress having failed to provide for the contingency, his duty was obvious. As President of the United States, he had no power, except to execute the laws of the land as Chief Magistrate. These laws gave him no authorify over the subject of reorganization, but by the Constitution he was commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. The Confederate Slates embraced a portion of the people of the Union who had been in a state of revolt, but had been reduced to obedience by force of arms. They were in an abnormal condition, without civil government, without commercial connexions, without national or international relations, and subject only to martial law. By withdrawing their representatives inC ongress, by renouncing the privilege of representation, by organizing a separate government, and by levying war against the United States, they destroyed theirS tate constitutions in respect to ue vital principle which connected their respective States with the Union and secured their federal relations; and nothing of those constitutions was left of which the United States were bound to take notice. For four years they had a de facto government, but it was usurped and illegal. They chose the tribunal of arms wherein to decide whether or not it should be legalized, and they were defeated. At the close of the rebellion, therefore, the people of the rebellious States were found, as the President expresses it, deprived of all civil government. Under this state of affairs it was plainly the duty of the President to enforce existing national laws, and to establish, as far as he could, such a system of government as might be provided for by existing national st
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Negro Universities Press
• Date d'édition: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0837123550
• ISBN 13: 9780837123554
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible