Thirteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Thirteenth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment Ratified in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment made abolition a permanent rule of the Constitution. Section 1 prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for crime after conviction. That nationwide command did something the Emancipation Proclamation could not. The proclamation was a […]
Fourteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized a new national understanding of citizenship and state responsibility. Its Citizenship Clause repudiated Dred Scott's exclusion of Black Americans from national citizenship. Its Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clauses restrict state action, while Section 5 authorizes […]
