Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

including birthright citizenship in the fourteenth amendment was to ensure citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War, which angered many confederate sympathizers and pro-slavery advocates. The status quo pre-Civil War deemed that African slaves were not citizens, but rather less than human. The very foundations of America legitimized treating slaves as fungible commodities rather than equal people. The earliest controversies of the United States focused on the value of African slaves. The…

that "in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no case here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among…

Question 1) Oregon vs. Smith, is a United States Supreme Court case that determined wither or not the state could reject unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state’s narcotic prohibition, even if the use of the drug was part of a religious ritual. Legally states have the right to accommodate some illegal acts done in pursuit of religious beliefs, but they are not required to make accommodations. This made The Supreme Court decision a major event in Native American religious…

Explain the difference between the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court Case and verdict from the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954) Supreme Court case and verdict. (Hint- Explain what Amendment both cases use as the basis of their arguments) In the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, Homer Plessy was the plaintiff in this case. Homer Plessy decided to travel on June 7, 1892 between New Orleans and Covington, La. He paid for a first-class ticket with a vacated seat in…

in the United States, the number of Americans that reported to have been profiled due to their race was thirty-two million in 2004, approximately the population of Canada (“Racial Profiling and the Use of Suspect Classification”). Racial profiling happens when a law enforcement official targets an individual based on their race or ethnicity. But racial profiling violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United…

Do illegal residents and immigrants have constitutional rights? Why the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution protect the immigrant victims? The Constitution of the United States was written to restrain the government from interfering with the natural rights of an individual such as the right to think, worship, choosing a mate and so on. According to Andrew Napolitano, the Supreme court identified the right to travel as a natural right in 1969, and shortly after the First…

stepping stone to approach the topic of racial injustice that Negroes are facing in America. 3. King’s allusions to the Declaration of Independence and the Bible occur as follows; “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir”, and “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough…

about the Constitution and how, “at the framing and adoption of the constitution, they forbore to so much as mention the word ‘slave’ or ‘slavery’” (Lincoln 268) Lincoln is speaking about the new territories and how the Constitution should be issued and adopted amongst all, even the new territories that are trying to act upon popular sovereignty. Lincoln, without hesitation here, says that since the Constitution, the historical document listing all the rights the people have, does not state the…

Liberty means that everyone has his own choice. Personally, enslaving means taking people, groups, or countries’ choices. Poverty and war were and still the main factors behind slavery; people or countries, who cannot pay their debts or defend themselves have no choice but being properties controlled by others. In most cultures, slavery never rapidly abolished; it always required time for the adjustment of the society’s ideology. A good example is the slavery that black people in America…

Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban the discrimination in public accommodations. I also knew that the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits any state from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal of the laws. Which is known as the equal protection clause. The Fourteenth Amendment attempted to guarantee citizenship rights to former slaves. The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery. I wasn’t aware that it was passed immediately after the Civil War. I thought it…