Amendment XIII, Section 2

Debates in Congress

• quoted bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 42

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

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the article proposed by the resolution; its words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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  House, January 31, 1865, ¶ 11

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

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the article the joint resolution proposes; its words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 71

  Skc 'i Congress j shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the amendment the bill proposes to submit to the States; these words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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  Senate, April 6, 1864, ¶ 226

  Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate Jegi lation

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the article reported by the Committee on the Judiciary as the Senate agreed to it; these words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, April 8, 1864, ¶ 185

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

  The speaker reads section 2 of the proposition of the committee; these words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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  Senate, March 28, 1864, ¶ 8

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

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the article reported by the Committee on the Judiciary; its words appear in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment ("enlbice" is a word marked uncertain, which the other scan reads "enforce"). Medium: the run of eight words counts a word the main scan misread (marked uncertain), as another scan reads it; unbroken in the stored text the run is shorter.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 31, 1864, ¶ 8

  Sf c -2 Congi ess shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  The paragraph gives section 2 of the article reported by the Committee on the Judiciary; these words appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, June 4, 1866, ¶ 28

  When these words were used in the amendment abolishing slavery they were thought to be harmless, but during this session there has been claimed for them such force and scope of meaning as that Congress might, invade the jurisdiction of…

  The paragraph says the enforcement words it has just quoted were used in the amendment abolishing slavery, naming the enforcement section of the Thirteenth Amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 159

  …the l act that by the constitutional amendment we had abolished slavery within the United States and in all the Territories subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and required Congress, by appropriate legislation, to enforce llial provision of the amendment.

  The speaker names the amendment's requirement that Congress enforce it "by appropriate legislation", words he also quotes later in the paragraph.

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  Senate, February 5, 1869 (2), ¶ 62

  If in the original text of the Constitution there could be any doubt, it was all relieved by the amendment abolishing Slavery and empowering Congress to enforce this provision.

  The paragraph names the part of "the amendment abolishing Slavery" "empowering Congress to enforce this provision"; only Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment fits.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 603

  Becoming citizens, there was a clause in the Constitution giving Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the abolition of slavery.

  The paragraph names "a clause in the Constitution giving Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the abolition of slavery", which is Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The Supreme Court

Cases whose essays in the Constitution Annotated cite them under this clause, oldest first. Each link names the pages it comes from.

• interpreted bySuggested
  The Civil Rights Cases (1883)109 U.S. 3, decided October 15, 1883

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt13.S2.1, Amdt13.S2.2, pp. 2038, 2039, 2040.

• interpreted bySuggestedOverruled
  Hodges v. United States (1906)203 U.S. 1, decided May 28, 1906

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt13.S2.2, Amdt13.S2.3, Amdt13.S2.4, pp. 2040, 2041, 2044.

• interpreted bySuggested
  Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968)392 U.S. 409, decided June 17, 1968

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 4 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt13.S2.2, Amdt13.S2.3, pp. 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042.

On Amendment XIII as a whole

• interpreted bySuggested
  The Civil Rights Cases (1883)109 U.S. 3, decided October 15, 1883

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt13.1, pp. 2027, 2028.