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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In the context of the landmark Civil Rights Cases, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow and Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker ...

Politics Part VI: Slavery and the Reconstruction Amendments An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), Bradwell v. Illinois ...

The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been followed by a well-crafted campaign to misrepresent the vocabulary and ...

Indeed, because no woman served in the Congresses that produced the Reconstruction-era amendments, and because no woman voted in any of the states that ratified the 13th and 14th amendments, a clear ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. This article is inspired by the author’s work in her book The Originalism Trap: How ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...