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 ...

TV news ran a mobile phone video recorded in Matale of an emissary of the JVP-NPP government visiting a household and communicating a cautioning from his party to a young man in a house in shabby ...

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

Back when it was being created and debated, Democrats were staunchly against the 14th Amendment. Matter of fact, they were against the preceding 13th Amendment which ended slavery in America.

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional District which included all of Genesee, Livingston, Niagara, Orleans, and ...

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 ...

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

Slavery was a critical part of the United States from its creation, both as a collection of colonies and as its own entity. The practice was legal in all 13 colonies, and the authors of the ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The language from Kentucky's constitution comes from the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which also allows for slavery as punishment for a crime. House Bill 121, a proposed constitution ...

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

Camping World’s extra large American Flag is facing some new challenges after a Greenville City Planning and Zoning ...