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Abolition refers to the act of putting an end to something by law, and may refer to: Abolitionism , abolition of slavery Abolition of the death penalty , also called capital punishment
Historically, slavery abolitionists have had to use the public meaning of Constitutional terms in order in their fight against slavery. [115] Constitutional abolitionists are generally in favour of incremental changes that follow the principles of the Reconstructive Amendments. [114]
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
Eventually support for abolition was enough to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in December 1865, which abolished slavery everywhere in the United States, freeing more than 50,000 people still enslaved in Kentucky and Delaware, in 1865 the only states in which slavery still existed.
The French Revolution tried to abolish slavery in 1794, but a permanent abolition did not occur until 1848. In much of the British Empire, slavery was subject to abolition in 1833, throughout the United States it was abolished in 1865 and in Cuba in 1886. The last country in the Americas to abolish slavery was Brazil, in 1888. [32]
The prison abolition movement sees the prison system as a new form of slavery that must be abolished in order for oppressed communities to be freed. Political activist and scholar Angela Davis' is a major figure in the prison abolition movement, which influences abolitionist teaching.
The abolition of monarchy is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary. The abolition of an absolute monarchy in favour of limited government under a constitutional monarchy is a less radical form of anti- monarchism that has succeeded in some nations that still retain monarchs ...
The term's contemporary usage is at times notably not directly related to the USSR, such as in the expression "North Korea's Gulag" [37] for camps operational today. [ 38 ] The word Gulag was not often used in Russian, either officially or colloquially; the predominant terms were the camps (лагеря, lagerya ) and the zone (зона, zona ...