Amendments

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were created right after the civil war.  So in the following blog I will be describing the following Amendments of the United States of America.


Amendment XIII (13th)
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.

What this Amendment does is that it completely eliminates slavery from the United States right after the Civil War of 1861.

Amendment XIV (14th)
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to 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.

What this Amendment does is protects all citizens from States who want to create their own laws.  For example, before this Amendment was created many States had their own law within their boarder lines almost as if they were a different country.  So what the 14th Amendment did was to stop any laws that violated the civil rights of the people who belonged to the nation.  It also gave citizenship to those who are born  or Naturalized in the United States.  They mainly did this because of many African Americans were not considered citizen because of slavery, and racial discrimination.

Amendment XV (15th)
Section 1
The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridge by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2
The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

So what the 15th Amendment does is give the people the right to vote, no matter what your race, color, or even in your previous life you were a slave.  The only mistake this Amendment has is that it does not mention anything about gender, so this will later become an issue in the United States.

                                                                   Work Cited

Divine, Robert A. America past and Present. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.