Veto Introductory Statement
The Super Citizenship Status of The 1866 Act was Codified into the US Constitution via the 14th Amendment.
In late 1865, post the US Civil War, the former Confederate states’ governing bodies enacted the
…Black Codes, which were the foundation of the 1877 Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise the military
…liberated American Africans from the bonds of dehumanizing chattel slaves, i.e., Freedmen. 
To counter the Black Codes, in 1866, the Republican-led Congress enacted an Act that federalized
…Freedmen into the only and exclusive federal super citizenship status in the Union.
This Congressional Act, which was/is the first Civil Rights law protecting Freedmen, empowers
…them as special, We the People body politic with such unprecedented authority, that upon studying
…this transformative federal law, the 17th President of the United States (POTUS),
…the Hon. Andrew Johnson of the Democratic Party VETOED it.
Nonetheless, Congress overrode the veto, codifying and enshrining The Act into the Constitution.
In his letter to both Houses of Congress, President Johnson, articulately, eloquently, and passionately
…expressed his understandable, but wrong, causes for his now legendary, infamous VETO.
Note: The contents of this Veto are essentially the foundational reasons why the Democratic Party disdains, despises, and even hates the Republican, and in many cases, its certain members, particularly Donald J.Trump.
Also, this explains why, since the Veto, the Party has incessantly schemed to suppress the federalized citizens by denying them access to literacy, which would empower them to save themselves and subsequently, the Union Republic.
Due to his mindset against The Act becoming Constitutional law, eventually on March 2 and 3, 1868,
…Mr Johnson became the first POTUS in US history to be impeached by the House,
…but was acquitted by the Senate on May 26, 1868.