Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...

The day after the presidential election, I walked into my school building, and before I could enter my office, a student, who ...

The 13th Amendment is regarded with suspicion by some Sinhala nationalists because they view any form of devolution as a form of federalism and in their minds federalism is equated to separatism ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The United States abolished slavery except as a punishment of a crime in 1865 with the ratification ...

Like other states, California has language in its constitution that mirrors the Thirteenth Amendment: “Slavery is prohibited.

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Journal of American History "Vorenberg's observations about the larger importance of the Thirteenth Amendment serve to enhance appreciation for what should no longer be the overlooked member of the ...

(Her emphasis.) Judge Kollar-Kotelly cited the Thirteenth Amendment—yes, the ban on slavery—as one provision that “has received substantial attention among scholars” as a source of a right ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The High Court has raised a legal question regarding the hearing of the rule on the 15th Amendment, as a case concerning the ...