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- Private: Through A Glass Darkly: The Supreme Court, Reconstruction . . .
Constitution Week Symposium, Fifteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction Amendments, Thirteenth Amendment This post is part of an ACSblog Constitution Week Symposium The author, Aderson Bellegarde François, is a law professor at Howard University and Supervising Attorney for the law school’s civil rights clinic
- The Federal Government Shutdown is a Thirteenth Amendment Problem
January 23, 2019 The Federal Government Shutdown is a Thirteenth Amendment Problem Ruben Garcia Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S Boyd School of Law
- Congress Legislated Under the Thirteenth Amendment Long Ago to Address . . .
Legislation under Congress’s Thirteenth Amendment powers that explicitly combats discrimination rooted in slavery is an appropriate and major step in that direction The Amendment, now at 155 years old, was to facilitate the kind of liberation Black Americans imagined—and continue to imagine—for ourselves
- Reclaiming the Abolition Amendments - ACS
The Meaning of the Abolition Amendments For the freedmen and their abolitionist allies, the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery meant not merely to eradicate the prior institution of chattel slavery, but to prevent its return or replacement in all but name
- Frederick Douglass Was My Founding Father - ACS
Douglass’ theory of the Constitution was most readily reflected in the language and text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which famously extended the equal protection of the law to “all persons” and enshrined the principle of birthright citizenship in the Constitution, overturning once and for all the shadow of Dred Scott and planting the
- Equal Rights Amendment - ACS
The American Constitution Society advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) to be recognized as the 28th Amendment to the U S Constitution We provide programming and resources to help foster greater understanding of this century-long fight for gender equality A woman in a Los Angeles crowd holds an ERA sign August 1972 Photo by George Garrigues The ERA is critical to addressing
- 13th Screening: Part 2 - ACS
Join ACS for part two of a two part screening of "13th" "13th" is a documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that discusses the American prison-industrial complex and the intersection of race and mass incarceration The title of the film is derived from the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for criminal convictions The documentary
- The Trump Administration Thinks It is Immune to Regulation of COVID-19 . . .
Labor activists in the 19 th and 20 th centuries invoked the 13th Amendment when they advocated for regulations that would protect their right to organize, establish minimum wage and maximum hours, and protect them against dangerous working conditions
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