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 amendment reads as follows: ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

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 ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

The scope of President Trump’s challenge to the existing constitutional order — largely through a blitzkrieg of executive ...

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

February is Black History Month, when the nation can pause and learn something about the culture of African Americans and ...

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