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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
- 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
- Private: Honoring Freedom, Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation . . .
The exhibit includes a rare signed copy of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery and is the centerpiece of the Spielberg film What a great opportunity to see and appreciate the reality of what's been portrayed on the movie screen
- 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
- Private: Society Must Be Defended*: Mass Incarceration, Race, and . . .
The 13th Amendment itself gives us the explicit assurance that slavery can be reborn so long as it is practiced solely on felons (something the South did almost immediately with the Convict Lease system) The 8th Amendment offers little solace either
- Student FALL 2020 14, Issue Chapter Newsletter
13th, the title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “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 ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the
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