| The thirteenth amendment was necessary to make its provisions stick once the crisis had passed. |
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| I intended to vote for the thirteenth amendment till I was advised that the condition failed. |
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| Currently, the Government had almost suppressed LTTE activities and was committed to implementing the law on the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, which granted substantial autonomy to the provinces. |
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| The original interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment was to prevent the state from enforcing labor contracts with penal sanctions. |
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| The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude and has been interpreted very broadly. |
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| Slavery was legally abolished in 1865 by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
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| Constitution, which would have been the Thirteenth Amendment had it been ratified. |
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| Closer to home, it would be evidently impossible to claim the United States as a democracy before 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment freed four million human chattels. |
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| Congress intended the Thirteenth Amendment to be a proclamation of freedom for all slaves throughout the nation and to take the question of emancipation away from politics. |
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| As the authors argued above, constitutionalization of worker protection through the Thirteenth Amendment would help to limit judicial erosion of labor rights. |
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| The enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment simply made slavery and all forms of involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, unconstitutional. |
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| By late 1864, Lincoln was playing a leading role in getting Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent. |
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