This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment ...

A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment ...

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Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

People shouldn’t shy away from admitting the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment. The remarkable nature of the constitutional order lies in its ability not to forestall revolutions ...

The 13th Amendment did that ... Those are the Fifth and 14th Amendments. The United States Constitution is not a gaudy skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, with the name "TRUMP" in gold letters.

Slavery may sound like an issue of the past, but the topic was on the ballot in two states — California and Nevada — during the 2024 general election. As election results were coming in on Nov ...