Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Act

Glossary

• artificial persons, called corporations in U.S. law, groups or other nonindividual entities, as opposed to individuals (“natural persons”)
• convey transfer legal ownership to
• the coveted prize citizenship
• ex post facto Latin for “after the fact,” a term describing a retroactive law, or a law that criminalizes acts that occurred prior to the time the law was adopted
• federative organized along federal lines, with both a national government and semi-sovereign or self-ruling state governments
• legal tender a unit or units of value that, by law, must be accepted as payment for a debt
• suffrage and office the right to vote and to be elected to public office