This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School. The Thirteenth ...

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...

Lincoln came late to the campaign for a thirteenth amendment that would abolish slavery. Instead, he argued for gradual emancipation, one state at a time, coupled with federal funds granted to ...

Leahy's attorneys argued to the 11th Circuit on Tuesday that the statute applied to him exceeds Congress’s authority under the Thirteenth Amendment, an argument the lower court denied. U.S. Circuit ...

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The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

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 ...