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Connie

Connie asked in Politics & Government Civic Participation · 8 years ago

why are the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment so alike?

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Lv 7
8 years ago
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Because the same members of Congress drafted both of them. Both were drafted by the Joint Committee on Reconstruction in 1866.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congres...
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juel
Lv 4
5 years ago
Civil Rights Act Of 1866
Source(s): https://shorte.im/a8Tp3
anette
5 years ago
I was curious on the answer too

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