The Importance of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifthteenth Amendendments

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The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments of The United States Constitution were important for implementing a total reconstruction of America and the blessings of of liberty to everyone that lived within the borders or our country. These ideas of equality would be reached out to the entire population including but not limited to slaves and their descendants and all American Citizens. These Amendments were especially important to African Americans and minorities who were the main victims of slavery and inequality during the time periods in which these Amendments were ratified. These amendments changed the way America operated as a country from politics to human rights and equality by granting freedom to sformer slaves and the prevention of discrimination from all citizens of the United States.
The Thirteenth Amendment to United States Constitution was passed by congress on January 31, 1865 and was ratified by the states on December 6, 1865 it declared that “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.” This Amendment was the first of three of what is historically known as the reconstruction amendments following the American Civil War. One of many major importances of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was it created a constitutional law against slavery that banned this practice in all of the American States. There is a common misperception that the Emancipation Proclamation given by President Abraham Lincoln actually abolished slavery, this is not the case, it only proclaimed freedom to slaves in the ten states in rebellion and was not actually a la...

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