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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/thirteenth-amendment-ratified/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/thirteenth-amendment-ratified/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
On Dec. 18, 1865, following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude. . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. | On Dec. 18, 1865, following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude. . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. | ||
=====Constitution of the United States—A History===== | |||
[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/more-perfect-union by NATIONAL ARCHIVES] | |||
May 25, 1787, freshly spread dirt covered the cobblestone street in front of the Pennsylvania State House, protecting the men inside from the sound of passing carriages and carts. Guards stood at the entrances to ensure that the curious were kept at a distance. Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, the "financier" of the Revolution, opened the proceedings with a nomination--Gen. George Washington for the presidency of the Constitutional Convention. The vote was unanimous. With characteristic ceremonial modesty, the general expressed his embarrassment at his lack of qualifications to preside over such an august body and apologized for any errors into which he might fall in the course of its deliberations. | |||
