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The Command of Army Act is a law that was in effect under the 1867–1868 appropriations act for the United States Army.The appropriations act under which the law was in place had been passed by the United States Congress on March 2, 1867, and signed by President Andrew Johnson on March 4, 1867.
In March 1867, despite taking formal issue with the Command of Army Act, arguing that it is unconstitutional, President Johnson signed the appropriations bill containing the act. [12] [13] [14] An alleged violation of act would later be the subject of the ninth article of impeachment that was adopted against Johnson. [15]
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Protecting Grant, Congress passed the Command of the Army Act, attached to an army appropriation bill, preventing his removal or relocation, and forcing Johnson to pass orders through Grant, the general in chief. [31] Republicans gained majorities in all 11 states, and African Americans were elected to Congress and high state offices. [32]
Kevin J. Coleman (2015): The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview (PDF). This Congressional Research Service document describes at its pages 4–5 the four Reconstruction Acts passed in 1867 and 1868 in the context of the United States reconstruction after the end of the Civil as envisioned by the United States Congress.
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate. The law was enacted March 2, 1867, over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. It purported to deny the president the power to ...
The Fourth Military District of the U.S. Army was one of five temporary administrative units of the U.S. War Department that existed in the American South.The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War.
This act, passed on March 2, 1867, divided the former Confederate States (except for Tennessee, after it ratified the 14th Amendment) [4] into five separate military districts. [5] The Reconstruction Acts required that each former Confederate state hold a Constitutional Convention, adopt a new State Constitution, and ratify the 14th Amendment ...