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 Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which introduced the caretaker government ...

Most of them were brought by incumbent Presidents to suit their political interests and were fundamentally anti-democratic. But the 13th Amendment, which has a relatively democratic dimension in ...

Bianca Tylek, founder and executive director of Worth Rises, joins Karen Conti to talk about how inmates are being used to fight wildfires. They also discuss why prison activists say this violates the ...

I would like to refer you to the inception of the need to incorporate the 13th Amendment creating nine Provincial Councils including the temporary merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces in the ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: However, as so often is the case, this reaffirmed ...

held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its ...