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{{cquote|...an assemblage composed of three or more acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without the authority of law as a punishment for or to prevent the commission of some actual or supposed public offense.|||Sec. 1}}

{{cquote|...an assemblage composed of three or more acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without the authority of law as a punishment for or to prevent the commission of some actual or supposed public offense.|||Sec. 1}}

Three components defined the bill: punishment of state and municipal officers who failed to protect lynching victims, punishment of the mob itself, and mandatory compensation by the county, within which the lynching occurred, towards family members of the victims.<ref name=blackpast/> The constitutional basis was rooted in the [[14th Amendment]], which guarantees "equal protection under the law.

Three components defined the bill: punishment of state and municipal officers who failed to protect lynching victims, punishment of the mob itself, and mandatory compensation by the county, within which the lynching occurred, towards family members of the victims.<ref name=blackpast/> In the event that the lynching victim was kidnapped from one county and murdered in another, both counties would be fined $10,000.<ref name=talbert/> The constitutional basis was rooted in the [[14th Amendment]], which guarantees "equal protection under the law.

==U.S. House: initial defeat, later passage==

==U.S. House: initial defeat, later passage==