are powerful but not always historically helpful ways to conceive of the 13th Amendment and the other two Reconstruction amendments. While slavery did not create the American republic, the ...

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Opinion: Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers writes regularly about civics education and the U.S. Constitution.

This Reconstruction strategy also requires states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery. The president's plan is implemented during the summer. August/September: President Johnson ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...