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.

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 ...

"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 ...

The same can be said of the state’s prisoner labor practices, which take advantage of a loophole in the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery to mobilize a massive workforce on behalf of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...