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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
the |
| 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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