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This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

13th Constitutional Amendment The 13th Constitutional Amendment ... the Sri Lankan Tamils of the Northern and Eastern provinces wrote a joint letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking ...

This week’s column in this context opines that the writing is on the wall for the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is the 13th ...

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 ...

Following that meeting, Tamil politicians hyped up expectations of the APC claiming that Wickremesinghe would discuss devolving police powers to provinces as per the 13th amendment to the ...

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 ...

(Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP) Recently a federal judge requested a briefing on whether the right to abortion is protected by the Thirteenth Amendment. U.S. District Judge Colleen ...

Noncompete clauses arguably violate the 13 th Amendment to the Constitution because they impose involuntary servitude on low wage workers. The 13th Amendment provides that “neither slavery nor ...

The 13th Amendment, which was ratified in 1865 ... Kollar-Kotelly’s suggestion stems from an order she wrote in a criminal case that accuses nine pro-life activists of violating the Freedom ...

If Kollar-Kotelly were to ultimately rule that the 13th Amendment protects abortions ... However, it was not raised,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.