The Congress passed the Act of the 28th of February, 1871, which so supplemented the Act of May 31st, 1870, as to place the whole control
The supplemental
enforcement Act.
But this was not yet enough in the views of the Administration. In the two years of his incumbency of the Presidential office, General Grant
The President's Message
of March 23d, 1871.
Congress answered this appeal with the noted, not to say notorious, Ku-Klux Act of April 20th, 1871, in which Congress simply threw to the
The Ku-Klux Act of
April 20th, 1871.
The first part of this Act was, unquestionably, an unconstitutional encroachment upon the powers of the "States," in so far as it is
The unconstitutionality
of the Act.