Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Amendment XIII (the Thirteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution states:

Section 2

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

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The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on January 31, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation of Secretary of State William Henry Seward, dated December 18, 1865, to have been ratified by the legislatures of twenty-seven of the then thirty-six states. The dates of ratification were:

Related Topics:
January 31 - 1865 - Secretary of State - William Henry Seward - December 18

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Ratification was completed on December 6, 1865. The amendment was subsequently ratified by:

Related Topics:
December 6 - 1865

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