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  1. Overview: United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
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  3. Committee:Senate Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1864-03-28 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65

An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.

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Session 8442: 1864-03-28 12:00:00

S. Res. 16 is debated.

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S. Res. 16

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [(two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, namely:]

ARTICLE XIII.

SEC. 1. Neither sSlavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, wshall not exist in the United States.

ART. 2. The Congreof tss, whenever pa majority shall have been duly conviof the members elected, to each House shall exist within the United Statesdeem it necessary, may propose amendments to the Constitution, or any place subject to, on the application of the Legislatures of a majority of their jurisdic several States, shall call a convention.

SEC. 2. Congress for proposing amendments, which in either case shall have power to enforcebe valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the Legis articlelatures or two thirds of the several States, or by appropriate legislconventions in two thirds thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress.

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