Hopefully we can have a productive dialogue, now that the Americans are sitting at the kids’ negotiating table.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The white supremacy campaign utilized speeches, propaganda cartoons, and the threat of ... enslaved peoples’ legal status: The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery, “…except as a punishment ...

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 ...

A duplicate of the 13th Amendment on display at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources in Raleigh, N.C. — AP Photo/Gerry Broome Gerry Broome Facebook ...

It’s obviously hard to know what Abraham Lincoln would think today about parts of the 13th Amendment that was broadly designed to end slavery. He was assassinated just four months after Congress ...

As expected, at the APC, Wickremesinghe insisted that the 13th amendment affects the entire country and hence a decision on this matter should involve input from all relevant parties.

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 ...

The Reconstruction Congress enforced the 13th Amendment with the 1867 Anti-Peonage Act, prohibiting employers from requiring their workers to enter into contracts that bind them to their employers.

That possibility snapped into focus via a federal district judge’s order for briefing on whether a constitutional right to an abortion could yet be found not in the 14th Amendment, but in the 13th.

JUDGE: RIGHT TO ABORTION MAY STILL EXIST — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested Monday that a constitutional right to abortion may be baked into the 13th Amendment, POLITICO’s Kyle ...