Bill Text: IL HR0870 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-17 - Resolution Adopted [HR0870 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0870-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, On January 15, 1867, the State of Illinois was one | ||||||
| 3 | of
the first of 28 states to ratify the 14th Amendment;
on July | ||||||
| 4 | 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was formally ratified to
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| 5 | Constitution of the United States; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all | ||||||
| 7 | persons
born or naturalized in the United States; it prohibits | ||||||
| 8 | states
from making or enforcing any law that abridges the | ||||||
| 9 | privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; it | ||||||
| 10 | prohibits
states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or | ||||||
| 11 | property,
without the due process of law; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, The 14th Amendment abolished the Three-Fifths | ||||||
| 13 | Compromise, instead requiring
that all persons be counted as | ||||||
| 14 | whole persons, regardless of
race; it prohibited former | ||||||
| 15 | Confederacy civil and military
officials from holding state or | ||||||
| 16 | federal office; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, These guarantees of the 14th Amendment are the | ||||||
| 18 | bedrock
from which modern civil rights movements were born; the | ||||||
| 19 | scope of the 14th Amendment continues to be heavily litigated | ||||||
| 20 | in civil rights cases
in courts throughout the United States; | ||||||
| 21 | and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, To this day, African Americans still must overcome | ||||||
| 2 | racism and discrimination perpetuated by institutions
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| 3 | individuals; food insecurity, failing educational systems, | ||||||
| 4 | health disparities, pay inequity, and poverty
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| 5 | disproportionately affect African Americans in the State of | ||||||
| 6 | Illinois and throughout the nation; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, The culture of racism persists through white
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| 8 | supremacists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and other groups of
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| 9 | hate, and the abhorrent speech and violence espoused by these
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| 10 | groups only serves to spread hate and divisions and further
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| 11 | hinders the progress that citizens of the United States have
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| 12 | made with civil rights; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Our great democracy thrives because of our | ||||||
| 14 | diversity in
race, gender, faiths, sexual orientations, and | ||||||
| 15 | political
beliefs; our nation was built by the labor and toil | ||||||
| 16 | of persons
from many ethnic and racial backgrounds; therefore, | ||||||
| 17 | be it
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| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 19 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 20 | commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the | ||||||
| 21 | 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of | ||||||
| 22 | America; and be it further
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That we recognize not all citizens of this great
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| 2 | country experience the full guarantees of the 14th Amendment to
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| 3 | the Constitution of the United States; and be it further
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| 4 | RESOLVED, That we condemn those who seek to dismantle the
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| 5 | foundational values of civil rights, equality, and freedom in
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| 6 | our State and nation.
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