An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
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The Committee receives the Resolution on the Maintenance Inviolate of Domestic Institutions.
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power upon which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.