The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery ... “Non-lawyers do have the power to effectuate change—that political power-building is oftentimes what leads to legal change ...

The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances, through extraordinary men, by extraordinary means, secured the political viability of the anti-slavery revolution. People shouldn ...

and a changing political mood that leaves Republicans less willing to back them. Jumoke Emery’s path to rethinking the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery started in a Colorado jail cell.

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant has been convicted. Congress was given the power to ...

FILE - 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. National lawmakers are expected on ...

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 ...

Have you read the 13th ... amendment, then pass it in Congress, then ratify it through acceptance by three-fourths of the States. Again, I hear your concern. This sounds impossible in our age. We ...

Lawmakers routinely propose bills that would sweep up all sorts of First Amendment-protected speech ... comedic impressions, political cartoons, and much more. The bill's sponsors, Reps.

ST. LOUIS – On this day 160 years ago, Missouri Senator John Brooks Henderson introduced what would become the 13th Amendment of the constitution, abolishing slavery. It said, “Slavery or ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on January 5 backed the India-mooted 13th Amendment as a solution to address the minority Tamil community's long-pending demand for political autonomy.

So it put a call for young artists to "visualize " the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. If the Emancipation Proclamation started out like an abstract ...

There was internal uproar at The Washington Post over a political cartoon that mocked the terrorist group Hamas, Fox News Digital confirmed. In an email to staffers on Wednesday, the paper's ...