The Articles of Confederation provided for amendments to be proposed by Congress and ratified by the unanimous vote of all thirteen state legislatures. This proved to be a major flaw in the ...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

As a guarantee of personal liberty for all persons in the United States, the amendment established a minimum national standard of equality founded on personal liberty, expressed by a proscription ...

But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment ... Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms ...

Alongside the 13th Amendment banning slavery and 15th Amendment ... never become citizens and on that basis deprived them of all rights. Contrary to the lies of Trump and his accomplices, the ...