Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, including approval by reconstructed governments in the former Confederate states, was completed on December 6, 1865. The text of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

Only then was slavery truly outlawed in the United States. The full text of the 13th Amendment is only two sentences, which makes its direct meaning fairly straightforward. The wording is as ...

but also in those proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language that modified the legal force of the newly proposed text. This language was deliberately ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

The text of the new amendment would focus more narrowly on the ... particularly for use in labor endeavors like mining during ...

After an abortion amendment passed in the Virginia Senate, ABC 13 is breaking down what this ... defined within the text of the amendment, and achieved by the least restrictive means." ...