[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress]
[115th Congress]
[House Document 114-192]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 98-99]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      AMENDMENT XIII.\4\


[[Page 99]]

exist within the United States, or any place subject to their 
jurisdiction.
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Sec. 224. Prohibition of slavery and involuntary 
servitude.

  Section 1.  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 
shall


  \4\The 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
38th Congress, on February 1, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation 
of the Secretary of State, dated December 18, 1865, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the 36 States. The dates of 
ratification were: Illinois, February 1, 1865; Rhode Island, February 2, 
1865; Michigan, February 2, 1865; Maryland, February 3, 1865; New York, 
February 3, 1865; Pennsylvania, February 3, 1865; West Virginia, 
February 3, 1865; Missouri, February 6, 1865; Maine, February 7, 1865; 
Kansas, February 7, 1865; Massachusetts, February 7, 1865; Virginia, 
February 9, 1865; Ohio, February 16, 1865; Indiana, February 13, 1865; 
Nevada, February 16, 1865; Louisiana, February 17, 1865; Minnesota, 
February 23, 1865; Wisconsin, February 24, 1865; Vermont, March 9, 1865; 
Tennessee, April 7, 1865; Arkansas, April 14, 1865; Connecticut, May 4, 
1865; New Hampshire, July 1, 1865; South Carolina, November 13, 1865; 
Alabama, December 2, 1865; North Carolina, December 4, 1865; Georgia, 
December 6, 1865. Ratification was completed on December 6, 1865. The 
amendment was subsequently ratified by Oregon, December 8, 1865; 
California, December 19, 1865; Florida, December 28, 1865 (Florida again 
ratified on June 9, 1868, upon its adoption of a new constitution); 
Iowa, January 15, 1866; New Jersey, January 23, 1866 (after having 
rejected the amendment on March 16, 1865); Texas, February 18, 1870; 
Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after having rejected the amendment on 
February 8, 1865); Kentucky, March 30, 1976 (after having rejected the 
amendment on February 24, 1865). The amendment was rejected by 
Mississippi, December 4, 1865, but subsequently ratified on March 16, 
1995.
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  Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.