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  1. Private: Through A Glass Darkly: The Supreme Court, …

    Sep 16, 2011 · Constitution Week Symposium, Fifteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction Amendments, Thirteenth Amendment This post is part of an ACSblog …

  2. The Federal Government Shutdown is a Thirteenth Amendment …

    January 23, 2019 The Federal Government Shutdown is a Thirteenth Amendment Problem Ruben Garcia Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada …

  3. Congress Legislated Under the Thirteenth Amendment Long Ago …

    Dec 3, 2020 · Legislation under Congress’s Thirteenth Amendment powers that explicitly combats discrimination rooted in slavery is an appropriate and major step in that direction. The …

  4. Reclaiming the Abolition Amendments - ACS

    Feb 6, 2023 · The Meaning of the Abolition Amendments For the freedmen and their abolitionist allies, the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery meant not merely to eradicate the …

  5. Frederick Douglass Was My Founding Father - ACS

    Feb 14, 2023 · Douglass’ theory of the Constitution was most readily reflected in the language and text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which famously extended the equal protection of the …

  6. Equal Rights Amendment - ACS

    The American Constitution Society advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) to be recognized as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We provide programming and …

  7. "13th" Screening: Part 2 - ACS

    Feb 3, 2025 · Join ACS for part two of a two part screening of "13th". "13th" is a documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that discusses the American prison-industrial complex and the …

  8. The Trump Administration Thinks It is Immune to Regulation of …

    Oct 16, 2020 · Labor activists in the 19 th and 20 th centuries invoked the 13th Amendment when they advocated for regulations that would protect their right to organize, establish minimum …

  9. The First Amendment in Flux - ACS

    The First Amendment in Flux September 2025 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of …

  10. 13th, the title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment …