People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

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.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

While the 13th Amendment ended slavery in the United States, a loophole allows people convicted of crimes to be forced to work for public or private enterprises. In this case, those tasked with ...

The 13th Amendment had abolished slavery in 1865 ... The Citizenship Clause directly overturned Dred Scott, ensuring that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...