WASHINGTON (KGO) -- On this day 151 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed a resolution that later became the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. RELATED: ABC7 celebrates Black History Month It was ...

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.

Following the Civil War and between 1865 and 1870, Congress passed Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14 and 15) to establish a new order or reconstruct laws to provide for equal freedoms and rights for ...

Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers are moving to amend a portion of the state’s constitution that permits slavery as a form of punishment for crime. Ohio’s constitution currently bans slavery and ...

Perhaps he recognises the long odds: almost 12,000 amendments have been proposed since the constitution replaced the Articles ...

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