Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

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Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...

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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 ...

Election Day in Louisiana is March 29, and on that day, voters will be asked to vote yes or no on four constitutional amendments.

It bars non-residents from buying agricultural land in 11 of 13 districts and reinstates a ceiling on land purchases for ...