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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 article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment 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 slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XIV.

The President and the Vice President of the United States shall be elected in the following manner: each State may, within thirty days next before the time appointed for the election of President, in any mode adopted by the State, nominate to Congress one candidate; and on the first Monday of February next before the expiration of each presidential term, the two Houses of Congress shall meet together as a convention, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, and all the candidates nominated by the States within the preceding thirty days, not exceeding one from each State, whose nomination shall have been authenticated to Congress, shall be before said convention as candidates for the Presidency; and thereupon said convention shall proceed, under the supervision of the presiding officers of the two Houses, to vote by open ballot from among all said candidates for President, and when any one shall have received a number of votes equal to the number of members, elected and appointed, of both Houses of Congress, he shall be declared by the President of the Senate to be elected President of the United States. In all cases where the balloting shall have continued in this mode through five days, and no election shall have been effected, on the sixth day it shall be resumed, and after each ballot the officers presiding shall drop the candidate who has received the smallest number of votes, or two or more candidates who have received an equal number of votes, and less than all the others; and the balloting shall be so continued among the remaining candidates until one shall receive the majority aforesaid; and thereupon the President of the Senate shall announce him to be elected President of the United States. The convention shall then proceed in the same manner from the remaining candidates to elect a Vice President of the United Slates. Whenever it may occur in the voting for President or Vice President that all the candidates but two have been dropped, the balloting between them may, if necessary to make an election, continue two days longer; and if then no candidate shall have received the required number of votes, the officers presiding over the convention shall report the state of fact to the Supreme Court of the United States, and it shall thereupon pronounce which of the two candidates shall fill the office. And no Senator or Representative who shall have voted for the candidate that may be elected President, or for the candidate for the Vice Presidency who may have been elected to that office, and upon whom the Presidency may have devolved, shall be nominated or appointed to an office by the incumbent of the Presidency for whom he may have voted.

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