Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

is not recognized under the Thirteenth Amendment. In the view of its congressional framers, the comprehensive sweep of the abolition amendment was balanced by its libertarian purpose. The scope of ...

The “Abolition Amendment” was introduced on ... Nikema Williams of Georgia. The 13th Amendment presently says, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ...

“Slavery was wrong from day one, and we should have abolished it when the 13th Amendment was ratified,” said Congresswoman Williams in a statement. “I will keep pushing–no matter how long ...

In a rare legal filing, a group of Filipino nurses is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment, which famously abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. Simply for ...

For one thing, it only abolished slavery in the Confederate ... the Senate passed the 13th Amendment by a vote of 38-6 and ...

This Nov. 29, 2011, file photo shows the signature of president Abraham Lincoln on a rare, restored copy of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast ...

“Slavery was wrong from day one, and we should have abolished it when the 13th Amendment was ratified,” said Congresswoman Nikema Williams. “I will keep pushing–no matter how long it ...

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 ...