Fifteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Fifteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment says that the United States and the states may not deny or abridge the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Ratified in 1870, it gave Congress enforcement power and created a constitutional rule that applied to every level of […]
Thirteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Thirteenth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment Ratified in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment made abolition a permanent rule of the Constitution. Section 1 prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for crime after conviction. That nationwide command did something the Emancipation Proclamation could not. The proclamation was a […]
