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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.
Y indicates that state ratified amendment: N indicates that state rejected amendment: Y (‡) indicates that state ratified amendment after first rejecting it: Y (×) indicates that state ratified amendment, but later rescinded that ratification: ⋈ indicates that state did not complete action on amendment during stated ratification period.
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]
Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.
In the United States, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime of which one has been convicted. [1] [2] In the latter 2010s, a movement has emerged to repeal the exception clause from both the federal and state constitutions.
Secretary of State William H. Seward announced the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18, 1865. [30] The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War, [31] the other two being the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
[20] [21] As with the Corwin Amendment, when what is now the Thirteenth Amendment was proposed and adopted, no one claimed that there already was an adopted Thirteenth Amendment. The assertion that the Titles of Nobility Amendment has been ratified by the required number of states has never been upheld by any court in the United States.
[19] With the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865, slavery was deemed unconstitutional. Involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, a practice that had already been widely used by the states, was still explicitly allowed.