While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth ...

The Writing on the Wall” is a figurative expression derived from the story of Daniel in the old testament of the Bible. ..

This week’s column in this context opines that the writing is on the wall for the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is the 13th ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to be using the promise of power-sharing as a political tool to secure himself in power.

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...

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Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...