Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ... viz. ... No state shall deny the right of suffrage, or abridge the same, to any male citizen of the United States ... but any state may exact of such citizen a specific term of residence ...
Publisher: Gov't Printing Office
Published: 1868
Place of publication: Washington D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Resolutions; Legislative Resolutions; Constitutional amendments; Representative government and representation; Suffrage; History; United States. Congress. Senate
Other titles: S. R. 179
Notes: Caption title.

With added docket title on verso.

"No State shall deny the right of suffrage, or abridge the same, to any male citizen of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upwards, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, and excepting also Indians not taxed; but any State may exact of such citizen a specific term of residence as a condition of voting therein, the condition being the same for all classes."

"December 7, 1868. Mr. Cragin asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to bring in the following joint resolution; which was read twice and ordered to be printed."