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THE SMOKING GUN
Johnson’s Veto as Exhibit A
Identifying the True Beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment
By Ted Hayes
Mr. Patriot | Justiceville
Servant Homeless Czar
📍 Los Angeles, California
🌐 http://justiceville.us/exodusii/
🟦 TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- The Constitutional Question
- Johnson’s Veto as Exhibit A
- Admission Against Interest Doctrine
- The Identified Class
- The Silence on Immigration
- Constitutional Irony
- Conclusion
- Footnotes
🟨 INTRODUCTION
This document presents a critical piece of historical and constitutional evidence regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.
At the center of this inquiry is a single question:
Who were the intended beneficiaries of this legislation?
The answer emerges not from supporters alone—but from the very man who opposed it.
🟩 SECTION — JOHNSON’S VETO AS EXHIBIT A
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🟦 ADMISSION AGAINST INTEREST (SHORT LEGAL SECTION)
In legal doctrine, an admission against interest occurs when a party makes a statement that undermines their own position.
President Andrew Johnson opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Yet in doing so, he repeatedly described:
- the “colored race”
- those emerging from slavery
- the relationship between Black and white citizens
Thus:
His opposition becomes evidence of legislative intent.
🟪 THE IDENTIFIED CLASS
Johnson’s words describe:
- formerly enslaved persons
- the African-descended population
- those transitioning from bondage to citizenship
- beneficiaries of Reconstruction
This is a specific historical class, not a universal abstraction.
🟫 THE SILENCE ON IMMIGRATION
Nowhere in the veto message are:
- immigrants identified
- foreign nationals discussed as beneficiaries
- birthright framed as global or borderless
This silence is not accidental—it is defining.
🟥 THE IRONY
In opposing the law, Johnson explained it.
- The veto becomes Exhibit A
- The opponent becomes interpreter
- Resistance becomes revelation
🟩 CONCLUSION
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment were directed toward:
The formerly enslaved African-descended population and their elevation into equal civil status.
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“In resisting the law, Johnson named its people.
In opposing their elevation, he identified their right.”
🟦 FOOTNOTES PAGE
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- Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27
- Veto Message of Andrew Johnson (March 27, 1866)
- Congressional Globe, 39th Congress (1866)
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV
- Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1865)
- Reconstruction debates, 1865–1866
- Federal Rules of Evidence 804(b)(3)
- Historical record: ~4 million emancipated persons
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🔥 THE SMOKING GUN
When President Andrew Johnson tried to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866…
👉 He accidentally revealed who it was for.
📜 His Words:
- “Four million have just emerged from slavery”
- “in favor of the negro”
- “the colored race”
- “equality of the white and colored races”
- “the Freedmen’s Bureau”