A Northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence.

We were all taught in school that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. to celebrate American independence ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

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Slavery became illegal when the 13th Amendment was adopted in 1865, but Prigg has been most often cited in the decades thereafter, mostly in cases involving property law, as guidance regarding the ...