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Re: Natural born Confederate citizens

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=88&invol=162

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article01/36.html

"The Enrollment Act of March 3, 1865, Sec. 21, 13 Stat. 487, 490. The language of the section appears more consistent with a deprivation of civil rights than of citizenship. Note also that Sec. 14 of the Wade-Davis Bill, pocket-vetoed by President Lincoln, specifically provided that any person holding office in the Confederate Government ''is hereby declared not to be a citizen of the United States.'' 6 J. Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents (Washington: 1899), 223. "

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