13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?

Question

i need a summary/explanation of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments please!

Answer 1

Hi Babe,

Nobody really gives you a straight answer. Let me try.

The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude (except as punishment for a crime).

the 14th does several things...
a. it grants citizenship rights to the emancipated slaves.
b. it tells states that they must grant due process and equal protection to all citizens.
c. it tells states that if they don't give voting rights to black men, then they cannot count them as part of the population for purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.
d. it bars (subject to Congressional oversight) former confederates from holding office in the United States.
e. it bars any claims southerners have for the costs of emancipation, and prevents them from repudiating any debt of the US in prosecuting the war.

The 15th amendment states that voting rights in states cannot be withheld on the basis of race, color, or previous position of servitude.
(This was passed because southern states blocked the rights of freed blacks to vote -- the Supreme Court never took this amendment seriously until the mid-1960s).

Answer 2

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In order for a law to be put into place, an amendment needed to be officially added to the Constitution. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were ratified at the end of the Civil War. Each amendment was significant in extending equal rights to African Americans. 13th Amendment: Bans slavery in the United States and any of its territories 14th Amendment: Grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law 15th Amendment: Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color or previous condition of servitude Thirteenth Amendment (1865): Abolishes slavery and grants Congress power to enforce abolition. (Full text) Fourteenth Amendment (1868): Defines United States citizenship; prohibits states from abridging citizens' privileges or immunities and rights to due process and the equal protection of the law; repeals the Three-fifths compromise; prohibits repudiation of the federal debt caused by the Civil War. (Full text) Fifteenth Amendment (1870): Prohibits the federal government and the states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting. (Full text)

Answer 3

13th 14th And 15th Amendments

Answer 4

Don't know about the 13th or the 15th Amendments. The 14th Amendment reads as such;

If you are born here or naturalized then there has to be due process of law before your life, liberty or property can be taken away.
Hope this helps a bit. I am a Criminal Justice major and this is one of the Amendments that we are always talking about.

Answer 5

What Was The 15th Amendment

Answer 6

The 13th to 15th Amendmends were meant to remove the shackles of Slavery and grant Blacks equal rights and access by Federal Statute during reconstruction and ensure fundamental rights under the law. The problem is Most Americans were still quite racist and so imagined seperate equalities which reinvented the slave as peons in a Jim Crow society.

What all of this ignores is the implications of the War of 1812, in which the states fought against the British on the issue of inpressment. Anotherwords freeing the Slaves was merely releasing the slaves in hostle land,and ignoring the crime of slavery and thus subjecting all freemen decendents to inpressment. Ergo freedom without liberty is a paper tiger as history has so pointedly shown!

Answer 7

The three ammendments you list are already pretty much summarized and self-explanatory. Here they are:

AMENDMENT XIII

Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

AMENDMENT XIV

Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2-4 [omitted].

Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

AMENDMENT XV

Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Answer 8

~Then grab a copy of the constitution and read them. I am sure you tried a search and couldn't find it, the constitution being such an arcane and obscure document, but if you try really really hard you might be able to find it and get you homework done. I mean, don't be a slave to it but with due process you can find something to color an answer with, I'm sure


To Su-Nami: surely if you are a criminal justice major, you are aware that the equal protection clause has led to as far-reaching consequences as has the due process clause. It behooves you to read the amendment, especially if you believe it to refer to citizens only.

Answer 9

13th- abolish slavery and involuntary servitude.
14th-made all persons born in the U.S. including former slaves citizens of the country.
15th- prohibits denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they been previously been slaves.

Answer 10

I don't believe that to be right