1. Constitutional Amendements
By the laws of the United States, those that won the top two electoral vote totals would be President and Vice President. ... In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring, "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.... In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the A...
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