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

Often overshadowed by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment officially codified the abolition of slavery into United States law in 1865. The first of the ...

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 ...

As much as 30% of the firefighters force in California may be prison inmates, according to reports. How did we get here? And ...

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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 ...

(Her emphasis.) Judge Kollar-Kotelly cited the Thirteenth Amendment—yes, the ban on slavery—as one provision that “has received substantial attention among scholars” as a source of a right ...

The Indo-Lanka accord and its off-spring - the 13th Constitutional Amendment were regarded as impositions thrust upon Sri Lanka by India and were bitterly opposed. Ironically, Tamil hawks too ...

The High Court recently restored the caretaker government system to oversee elections. However, constitutional barriers make transforming the current interim government into a caretaker government tri ...