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  2. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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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.

  3. File:13th amendment ratification.svg - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Hodges v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1 (1906), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court limiting the power of Congress to make laws under the Thirteenth Amendment. ...

  5. Corwin Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The Corwin Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that has never been adopted, but owing to the absence of a ratification deadline, could theoretically still be adopted by the state legislatures. It would have shielded slavery within the states from the federal constitutional amendment process and from abolition or ...

  6. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states.

  7. Thirteenth Amendment - Wikipedia

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    Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime; Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, established the Indian state of Nagaland; Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which specified that the prohibition on abortion would not ...

  8. Enforcement Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Enforcement Acts were a series of acts, but it was not until the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, the third Enforcement Act, that their regulations to protect black Americans, and to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution were really enforced and followed. It was only after the creation of the third ...

  9. African American founding fathers of the United States

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    The "second founding" comprised the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. All citizens now had federal rights that could be enforced in federal court. In a deep reaction called the Nadir of American race relations , after 1876 freedmen lost many of these rights and had second class citizenship in the era of lynching and Jim Crow ...