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:

    Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn’t executions be public?
    Phil Donahue (b. 1935)