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The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.
Text of the 13th Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. [6] It was passed by the U.S. Senate on April 8, 1864, and, after one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. [7]
JSTOR 27773616. text; Hamilton, Howard Devon. The Legislative and Judicial History of the Thirteenth Amendment. Political Science dissertation at the University of Illinois; accepted May 15, 1950. Accessed via ProQuest, 4 July 2013. Halbrook, Stephen P. (1998). Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866–1876 ...
Dec. 9—If politics were a painting, the expression wouldn't be a static study of, say, flowers in a vase on an oh-so-tidy tabletop. It would be full of etches, shades and nuances. Lines ...
Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.
The last amendment, the 27th, concerns the timing and compensation of Senators and Representatives. Part of the original Bill of Rights, it was not ratified until 202 years, seven months later by ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
English: Map showing the order in which states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. All 36 states in existence when the House and Senate brought the Amendment to the states for ratification eventually ratified the Amendment, although Delaware, Kentucky, and Mississippi's post-enactment ratifications were not made until the 20th century.