14 Stat. 176 (1866)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Federal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T23:40:50Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:19:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1868 | |
| dc.description.abstract | § 14: Reaffirmed that freedmen were entitled to "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms." | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That in every State or district where the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, and until the same shall be fully restored, and in every State or district whose constitutional relations to the government have been practically discontinued by the rebellion, and until such State shall have been restored in such relations, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, personal security, and the acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, real and personal, including the constitutional right to bear arms, shall be secured to and enjoyed by all the citizens of such State or district without respect to race or color, or previous condition of slavery. | |
| dc.description.summary | Reaffirmed that freedmen were entitled to the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3484 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Public_Statutes_at_Large_of_the_Unit/DBtnZb8dyHIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Act+of+July+16,+1866&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUARANTEED RIGHT | |
| dc.title | 14 Stat. 176 (1866) |