Unlike most other parts of the Constitution ... as a limitation on government power in the United States, is not recognized under the Thirteenth Amendment. In the view of its congressional ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

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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.

so they believed the Civil Rights Act was constitutionally authorized by the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and gave Congress power to enforce that ...

On April 14, 1775, the first organization dedicated to the abolition of slavery in North America was founded in Philadelphia.

Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment nearly 154 years ago — Jan. 31, 1865 to be exact — by a vote of 119-56. The Civil War would end later that year, but President Abraham Lincoln, compelled by ...

A resolution was introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday, proposing an amendment to the state Constitution that would eliminate an exception to the ...