AMENDMENT XIV Part 1
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment echoes that of the Fifth Amendment. The FifthAmendment, however, applies only against the federal government, but after the Civil War, Congressadopted several measures to protect individual rights from interference by the states. Among them wasthe Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the states from...
AMENDMENT XIII Part I
Section 1.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall havebeen duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.Section 2.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified...