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  1. Overview: United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
  2. Full Record: United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
  3. Committee:Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1865-02-05 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65

An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.

Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives

Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress

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Session 14436: 1865-02-05 00:00:00

H. R. 740 is received from the House.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That neither the people nor the legislature of any State, the people of which were declared to be in insurrection against the United States by the proclamation of the President, dated August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall hereafter elect representatives or senators to the Congress of the United States until the President, by proclamation, shall have declared that armed hostility to the government of the United States within such State has ceased; nor until the people of such State shall have adopted a constitution of government not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States; nor until, by a law of Congress, such State shall have been declared to be entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States of America.

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