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    certain extent, the 13th amendment is helpful because corporations promise legislators kickbacks and other benefits. Evidence: To ensure that revenues are high, shareholders are content, and the immoral prison industry remains entirely legal, corporations have created a lobby group, that prefers not to call themselves a lobby group (cite), called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Their goal is not to reverse the negative effects of the Thirteenth Amendment but instead to…

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    Jordi Castillo Mrs. Kehrmeyer English 11 11 April 2018 13th Amendment The Thirteenth Amendment is one of the most important rules known in the world. No one should be forced to be a slave and they shouldn’t be held against their will to work. This Amendment help change and better our world that we live in today. Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall Harlan , and Abraham Lincoln were involved in the issue addressed by by the proposal. Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers opposed slavery but they…

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    INCORPORATING THE 13TH, 14TH, AND THE 15TH AMENDMENT INTO CONGRESS JANESSA MOSS AMERICAN HISTORY II TUESDAY & THURSDAY 11AM – 12:15PM APRIL 27, 2017 We all have the feeling of entitlement, where we feel like someone owes us something. Well back in 1789, there were things that some people had to fight for, literally. Not all of the freedom that we have now was easy for the people who have fought for the things that sometimes we do not appreciate. The people had to…

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    The 13th amendment had abolished slavery. The Caucasians despite the idea of having African Americans free, and went by any means to have them held in bondage. This, however, was very easy for them to accomplished, for they had created laws that had African-Americans arrested and put over long periods, because of senseless crimes. After a while, these states realized that they could make profits off these prisoners which they earned a lot from. During the 1800s laws like the pig laws and…

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    The 13th Amendment, passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865, states: "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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The passing of this amendment freed slaves and made it illegal to have slaves, but the 13th Amendment did not give African-Americans the equal rights that they longed for. Consequently, slavery…

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    An Amendment is a minor change in a document (which in this case would be the adding of laws for the country). I believe one Constitutional amendment that had changed America would be the 13th, simply because it abolished slavery. For a country that is so reliant on religion to guide them, you’d think slavery wouldn’t even be a thing considering how much God dislikes it (Exodus 21:16). Not to mention the way White Americans treated their slaves was just completely disgusting. Ever since White…

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    fourteenth amendment both contributed to the Reconstruction of America. Both amendments gave rights to African Americans that lived in America. The amendments gave them civil rights and rights to be people and citizens of America. Even though both of these amendments did not allow africans to vote, it still gave them freedom and more equality than what they had before. The 13th and 14th amendment's both were, in my opinion, a positive effect on the Reconstruction. These two amendments…

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    The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all Americans equal protection of the laws. Throughout the history of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native…

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    In January 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment was approved a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery throughout the nation. When ratified later that year, the thirteenth amendment banned both slavery and forced labor. It gave Congress the power to make laws to enforce its terms. Outlawing slavery Quote: “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, or any place subjected…

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    The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution states, “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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." What this statement means human beings cannot be held against their will or be forced to do labor no matter their race, sex, or religion. The main exception to this is if they’re convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers. This…

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