What is the Thirteenth Amendment?

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished and prohibited slavery in all its forms within the United States or its territories.

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#POW158 If slavery was not made illegal until the Thirteenth Amendment, was it wrong for the Union to coerce the states to free their slaves? (Powers of Congress) While slavery is immoral, it was unconstitutional for the Union to coerce the states to free slaves without first amending the Constitution.
#POW157 What made slavery illegal? (Powers of Congress) The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution made slavery illegal. However, the fact that all men were not treated equally under the law was a great national sin, for which our country has paid dearly...
#POW154 Is slavery legal? (Powers of Congress) No, slavery is an affront to God and to civilization, and forbidden by equal application of the Law.
#POW155 Was slavery legal? (Powers of Congress) Yes, slaves were inconsistently treated as property at the founding of our country, while yet in certain instances were in fact counted as people. As more people called for the abolition of slavery, i...
#POW156 Doesn't a citizen have a right to have his property, and to maintain his property without fear of confiscation? (Powers of Congress) Yes, a citizen has the right to have and maintain his property. However, God did not make men as property to be owned by other men.
#RGTS325 What is the Fifteenth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote irrespective of race, color or position of servitude.
#RGTS321 What else does the Fourteenth Amendment require? (Rights and Amendments) It requires that the states to treat all citizens equally under the law.
#RGTS317 Why was the Fourteenth Amendment created? (Rights and Amendments) The Fourteenth Amendment was created to iterate that freed slaves, naturalized under the jurisdiction of the United States, were to be considered full citizens, and that the states must treat them acc...
#JUD269 How is an amendment to the Constitution shown to be the will of the people? (Courts, States, and Constitutional Order) When two thirds (a super majority) of the members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives shall agree by a vote that an alteration would be proper, they may state such an alteration and pr...
#JUD268 The majority of the people of any State may by due process certainly alter its laws, provided they do not violate the Constitution; but may the Constitution itself be altered? (Courts, States, and Constitutional Order) Yes. The Constitution being nothing more than an expression of the will of the people of the United States, is at all times within their own power, and they may change it as they see fit, but it ought...
#RGTS275 How many times has the Constitution been amended? (Rights and Amendments) There have been twenty seven amendments to the constitution.
#RGTS274 Has the Constitution ever been altered? (Rights and Amendments) Yes. Through its own constitutional amendment process.