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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
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
A New Beginning? Justice Ginsburg and the Equal Rights Amendment With the Equal Rights Amendment, we may expect Congress and the state legislatures to undertake in earnest, systematically and pervasively, the law revision so long deferred And in the event of legislative default, the courts will have an unassailable basis for applying the bedrock principle: All men and all women are created equal