On the Eve of history Vol. Those who came before us

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. I wish Martin Luther King could be alive to see this. Also, I thinkObama's grandmother should be on your list R.I.P..
 
Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865.History

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within theUnited States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868.Note History

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdictionthereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges orimmunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life,liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the severalStates according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote atany election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officersof a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens ofthe United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in theproportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under theUnited States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of anyState legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection orrebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services insuppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurredin aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations andclaims shall be held illegal and void.

5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ndment 15 - Race No Bar to Vote. Ratified 2/3/1870.History

1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, orprevious condition of servitude.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
 
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