RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

7/24/2011

THE CONSTITUTION

Amendment XIII

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.

This amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865.  (right after the Civil War)

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