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 ...

The movie needs a plot device that raises dramatic tension, and so the audience is encouraged to believe through a series of scenes that passage of the Thirteenth Amendment by the House before the ...

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 ...

Journal of American Ethnic History "The strength of Vorenberg's study lies in its detailed analysis of the limitations of wartime emancipation and the debate that ensued over an emancipation amendment ...

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

(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 ...

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

The 15th amendment in 2011 scrapped the 13th amendment, which had introduced the non-party caretaker government system in ...