This use of force was made possible due to section five of the Fourteenth Amendment that allowed Congress to "have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of the Amendment. ... Formed in April of eighteen seventy-one, the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States was formed by congress to "to investigate the current condition of 'the late insurrectionary states', which included Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. ...

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