The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia.

— An Act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia. Feb, 21, 1871. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Vol. xvii. p 16

The Act of 1871 formed a corporation called THE UNITED STATES. The corporation, OWNED by foreign interests, moved in and shoved the original Constitution into a dustbin. With the Act of 1871, the organic Constitution was defaced — in effect vandalized and sabotage — when the title was capitalized and the word “for” was

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So the Act of 1871 was to create a private corporation owned by the actual government of the District of Columbia--- the infamous District of Columbia Municipal Corporation: “Further, the only government created in that Act was the same form of private government

In December 1865, at nearly the same time the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide, a group of former Confederates formed a self-proclaimed “self-defense” organization—the Ku Klux Klan.

The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. The statute has been subject to only minor ...

In response, Congress passed a series of Enforcement Acts in 1870 and 1871 (also known as the Force Acts) to end such violence and empower the president to use military force to protect African Americans.

Sep 5, 2021 · The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, gave those deprived of their civil rights the opportunity to sue in federal court and authorized the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in order to break the Ku Klux Klan.

What Congress did by passing the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia, an INCORPORATED government. This. newly altered Constitution was not intended to benefit the Republic.

Jun 8, 2018 · The Enforcement Act (17 Stat. 13), commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act or the Civil Rights Act of 1871, was a response to extraordinary civil unrest during the Reconstruction period. This unrest threatened the lives and the political and …

Congress followed the Civil Rights Act of 1870 with an 1871 law “to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” which came to be known as the Third Enforcement Act or the Second Ku Klux Klan Act.

For expenses incurred under instructions of the Secretary of State, Vol. p. of bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, Persons and expenses incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand charged with dollars.

Mar 1, 2021 · Part I discusses the legislative history behind the 1871 Act, which was specifically requested by President Grant to combat the Ku Klux Klan in the South. Part II explores the text of the Act, which was reorganized and dispersed within the Revised Statutes in 1874.

The Ku Klux Klan Act made it a federal crime to deny any group or individual “any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution.” To enforce the law, the President could suspend habeas corpus, deploy the U.S. military, or use “other means, as he may deem necessary.”

The Historic Documents in this set cover the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1861 to 1877. During this period, Americans engaged in a bloody Civil War and debated how best to reconstruct the nation to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence.

Apr 20, 2013 · The act designed to protect African-Americans in the South who had been intimidated, harassed, assaulted, and murdered by Klan members; its provisions enabled federal soldiers to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and other civil …

For expenses incurred under instructions of the Secretary of State, Vol. p. of bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, Persons and expenses incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand charged with dollars.

Three Cities and Two Counties: 1801-1871 In the Organic Act of 1801 (2 Stat. 103), Congress formally organized the District of Columbia. It created Washington County east of the Potomac River and Alexandria County on the west side. The towns of Alexandria and Georgetown retained their separate municipal governments.