Report and Resolution of the Joint Select Committee of Both Houses of the General Assembly of North Carolina, on the Proposition to Adopt the Congressional Constitutional Amendment, Presented by James M. Leach, of Davidson, Chairman

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Excerpt from Report and Resolution of the Joint Select Committee of Both Houses of the General Assembly of North Carolina, on the Proposition to Adopt the Congressional Constitutional Amendment, Presented by James M. Leach, of Davidson, Chairman: On the 6th of December, and Adopted by Both Houses on the 13th December, 1866The Committee entertain the opinion that this proposition has not been submitted in a constitutional manner, and in pursuance of the forms prescribed by the Constitution. North Carolina and her ten sister seceding States, have been repeatedly recognized as States in the Union, by all the Departments of the Federal Government, both during and since the war. Congress, did this by the Resolutions of July, 1861, which. Declared that the object of the war was not. For any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired. And again by an Act apportioning taxation among the States, by an Act assigning them their respective numbers of Representatives, by an Act at the last session re-adjusting the Federal Judicial Circuits, by accepting as valid the assent of Virginia to the division of that State, and thereupon establishing the State of West Virginia, and by other Acts. The Judiciary has recognized them by hearing and deciding causes carried up from their Courts. The Executive has done so by approving the aforesaid Acts of Congress. This recognition of them as States in the Union is now repeated by the Federal Government in submitting to them for ratification the pending proposition of Amendment, since only States in the Union can vote on such a question.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.