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.

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

"The 13th Amendment abolished slavery for all intents and purposes, but slavery still continues," said Rep. George Brown, Jr. "We are still enslaving people in the year 2025 and that's something ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today deferred for two weeks the hearing on four separate review petitions filed ...

Likewise, Senator Lyman Trumbull, author of the 13th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act and a drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment, said that the six words included only those “not owing allegian ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed suit and immediately started using prisons like Folsom and San Quentin to ...