The oceans are the Earth's largest carbon storage medium, so if the atmospheric CO2 increase were natural, it would likely be coming from the oceans. But we know the CO2 increase is not coming from the oceans, because the pH of the oceans is dropping (a.k.a. ocean acidification).
1866 civil rights act. congress's response to the black codes which decalred blacks to be citizens of the United States and gave the government power to intervene in state affairs to protect the rights of its citizens.adical reconstruction. Occurring shortly after the civil war these changes included radical republicans efforts such as work on a civil rights bill (which was vetoed by Johnson), the 14th amendment, and the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
Part II dives into the legislative histories of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. The 39th Congress understood itself as having the power to define the privileges and immunities of national citizenship, which in the Civil Rights Act included benefits typically regarded as nonfederal.