The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction: 39th Congress, 1865-1867The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 414 páginas Kendrick, Benjamin B. The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction. 39th Congress, 1865-1867. New York: Columbia University Press, 1914. 414 pp. Three plates. Reprint available September 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-443-6. Cloth. $90. * President Johnson's failure to pursue an aggressive Reconstruction policy incited Congress to supplant his authority by establishing the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, which drafted the Civil Rights Act (1866), the Reconstruction Act (1867) and the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Due to a series of mishaps the committee's journal was never printed by the government. Brought home by Senator William Pitt Fessenden, one of the committee's members, it remained in his family until it was sold at auction. It was finally acquired by Columbia University, where it remains today. Kendrick offers the complete text of the journal (166 pages) and an extensive history of the committee's work. Published originally in the Columbia University series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, this work is cited frequently in the literature on Reconstruction. |
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CHAPTER I | 133 |
Stevens criticism of Lincoln | 138 |
The conquered province theory of reconstruction | 163 |
William Pitt Fessenden | 169 |
Fessenden and the impeachment of Johnson | 180 |
Action of the House on the declaratory resolution | 239 |
Johnson fails to grasp the situation | 249 |
The question of Tennessees admission again becomes important | 256 |
Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights bill and the breach with the con | 263 |
The committees first draft of the present fourteenth amendment | 303 |
CHAPTER VIII | 307 |
Modification of the amendment by the Republican senators | 316 |
Temporary postponement of the bill | 328 |
George S Boutwell | 187 |
The Democratic members Johnson Grider Rogers | 195 |
Opinions of the press | 210 |
Conservative and Democratic opposition | 216 |
The House resolution creating the committee | 228 |
Presidents veto of the Freedmens Bureau bill tends to alienate | 232 |
THE RECONSTRUCTION | 354 |
The Blaine amendment | 397 |
Stevens final plea against the Blaine amendment | 403 |
Motives of Stevens and the radicals | 410 |
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