There are 25 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

To place slave emancipation on a secure constitutional footing, Congress proposed on January 31, 1865, to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...

Slavery in the United States was officially abolished on December 6, 1865, with the ratification of the 13th Amendment after it was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865. The amendment declares ...

Experience supported these conjectures: no amendment, however minor its attempt to strengthen the general government, had ever survived the ratification ... be denied by a thirteenth, the majority ...

In 1972, when Congress proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification, it specified a seven-year period for ratification. That seven-year period expired on March 22 ...

Congress proposed the 13th Amendment in January 1865, and it quickly became part of the Constitution when Georgia, the 27th of the 36 states at the time, ratified it on December 6, 1865.