...officeholding under the Fourteenth Amendment and declaring the existing southern state governments "provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States." Johnson vetoed this Reconstruction Act on March 2, but it was immediately passed )ver his veto. The...

...States, as hereinafter prescribed." By the sixth section of the original act these governments were made "in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States." unlimited authority. It is no longer confined to the preservation of the public peace, the administration...

...legislature. During all this time, all-white power structures continued as "provisional" governments "subject to the paramount authority of the United...to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." 1 But if the Union Army did not choose to exercise its "paramount authority," the old governments had...

...representation in Ihe Congress of the United Slates, any civil government which mny exist there shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same," and such States are divided into military districts ; and, whereas in the supplementary reconstruction...

...States of America in Congress assembled, That the civil government actually existing in Georgia is provisional only, and in all respects subject to the...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same, until a legislature organized in accordance with the requirements of the act of July nineteenth, eighteen...

...United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional [temporary] only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States. — From George P. Sanger, editor. The Statutes at Large: Treaties and Proclamations of the United...

...representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under such provisional governments all persons shall be entitled...

...representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under such provisional governments all persons shall be entitled...

...representation in the Congress of the United States, any government that may exist therein shall be, deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same. The, supplementary act of July 19, 18(J7, declares it to have been the true intent and meaning of the...

...representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under such provisional governments all persons shall be entitled...