Thirteenth Amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment may refer to the:

  • Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery
  • Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which stripped the president of many of his reserve powers
  • Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which specified that the prohibition on abortion would not limit freedom of travel
  • Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

Famous quotes containing the words thirteenth and/or amendment:

    “The thirteenth fairy,
    her fingers as long and thin as straws,
    her eyes burnt by cigarettes,
    her uterus an empty teacup,
    arrived with an evil gift.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)