Eleven of the then required thirteen states ratified the amendment and, for a while, it was mistakenly listed as “The Thirteenth Amendment” in the United States Statutes at Large, prompting an ...

Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, including approval by reconstructed governments in the former Confederate states, was completed on December 6, 1865. The text of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

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We have 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. Each is part of the Constitution. The last amendment to be ratified is the 27th Amendment. This amendment was ratified over two centuries ...