Chicagoans have the chance to see the original 13th Amendment along with other Civil War-era artifacts until Friday at Heritage Auctions Chicago, 222 W. Hubbard St. In honor of Black History Month ...

Even so, it's a little startling to come upon section 7.19, which calls for "the reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment, not the 13th amendment in today's Constitution." ...

The 13th Amendment, formally ending legal slavery in this country, is one of them. North Carolina’s copy of the document will be exhibited in WNC for the first time on June 12 at Vance ...

Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books and manuscripts sale on June 26 in New York. The 1863 proclamation originally ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

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.

Abortions rights activists and Congress need a new Supreme Court strategy, based on the 13th Amendment. The bill to protect women's health will meet the same fate Roe v Wade.

Jacobus tenBroek, Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Consummation to Abolition and Key to the Fourteenth Amendment, 39 Calif. L. Rev. 171, 178 (1951) (quoting Cong ...

Kollar-Kotelly noted that some legal scholarship suggests the 13th Amendment — which was ratified ... any other provision of the Constitution could confer a right to abortion as an original ...

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, File ...

An original copy of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery will make its first Virginia visit next weekend as part of Richmond's Civil War and Emancipation Day activities.