Ku Klux Klan Act(Protection for Freedmen from Democrat Thugs)

Legal Dictionary ^ | 08/18/2017 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

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In March 1871, President ulysses s. grant requested from Congress legislation that would address the problem of KKK violence, which had grown steadily since the group's formation in 1866. Congress responded on April 20, 1871, with the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act, originally introduced as a bill "to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment and for other purposes." Section 1 of the act covered enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment and was later codified, in part, at 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983. Section 2 of the act, codified at 42 U.S.C.A. § 1985(3), provided civil and criminal penalties intended to deal with conspiratorial violence of the kind practiced by the Klan. Both sections of the act were intended to give federal protection to Fourteenth Amendment rights that were regularly being violated by private individuals as opposed to the state. In addition, the Ku Klux Klan Act gave the president power to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus in order to fight the KKK. President Grant used this power only once, in October 1871, in ten South Carolina counties experiencing high levels of Klan Terrorism. The act also banned KKK and other conspiracy members from serving on juries. The Republicans who framed the Ku Klux Klan Act intended it to provide a federal remedy for private conspiracies of the sort practiced by the KKK against African Americans and others.

[buffaloguy]

Make this one go viral. It is excellent.

[GOPJ]

Grant and Lincoln were Republican who fought to free the slaves... Democrats were the KKK.

How democrat elites have pulled the wool over so many people’s eyes is a total wonder... I lived in the Jim Crow South - the democrats who were vile racists DID NOT CHANGE PARTY - THEY STAYED DEMOCRAT AND JUST CHANGED ‘THEIR TUNE’ SO IT WOULD BE MORE ACCEPTABLE. They also changed the victim group they beat up - from blacks to conservatives. They even use the same tactics... heavy on shaming and ‘consensus’... Same tactics Hitler used. One of evil’s tells.

[Vendome]

BINGO!

Proving once again, all good things and great ideas come the Republicans, who truly have been about promoting equal rights for all, as well protecting the rights of minorities and those unable to defend themselves.