Difference between revisions of "Thirteenth Amendment"

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-Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
-Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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-Ratified Dec. 6, 1865.  This was the first amendment passed after the end of the Civil War.  The purpose was to prohibit slavery.
-New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky ratified this amendment after initially rejecting it.  Kentucky did not ratify this amendment until 1976, in a symbolic gesture.
-Mississippi rejected this amendment and never ratified it, but is bound by it because it had been ratified by three-quarters of the states.
-[[Category: Constitution]]

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