An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
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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, [[-e866675](two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following articles[-e866675] be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an[+e866675] amendments[-e866675] 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:][-e866675]No negro, or person whose mother or grandmother is or was a negro[+e866702] [-e866702]
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ART[-e866702]ICLE XIII. [+e866675 -e866702]
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SEC[+e866675 -e866702]. 1. [-e866702]Neither s[+e866675 -e866702]Slavery [-e866702]n[+e866675 -e866702]or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, [-e866702]w[+e866675 -e866702]shall not exist in the United States. [-e866702]
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A[-e866702]RT. 2. T[-e866675]be a c[+e866702]he Cong[-e866702]reo[+e866675 -e866702]f[+e866675]ze[+e866702] t[+e866675]of [+e866702]ss, w[-e866675]henever[-e866675] p[+e866675]a majo[-e866675]ri[-e866675]be eligible[+e866702]ty [-e866702]shall have bee[+e866675 -e866702]n du[+e866675]any civil or military office, o[+e866702]ly convi[+e866675 -e866702]of the members elected[-e866702],[+e866675 -e866702] to each House shall [-e866702]exi[+e866675 -e866702]st wi[+e866675]any place of trust or profit under the United States[+e866702]thin the United States[+e866675 -e866702]deem it necessary, may pr[-e866702]opose amendments to the Constitution[-e866675], or any place subject to[+e866675], on the application of the Legislatures of a majority of[-e866675] their jurisdic[+e866675] several States, shall call a conven[-e866675]tion. [+e866675]
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SEC. 2. Congress[+e866675] for proposing amendments, which in either case[-e866675] shall have power to enforce[+e866675]be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by[-e866675] the Leg[-e866675]is article[+e866675]latures or two thirds of the several States, or[-e866675] by appropriate legisl[+e866675]conventions in two thirds thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratific[-e866675]ation may be proposed by Congress[-e866675].