WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely ...

Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, and subsequently enacted a law extending that deadline to 10 years. But by 1982, only 35 states had ratified. Since then, three more states ...

Congress was given the power to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation. Ratified in 1865, Amendment XIII’s language is clear: Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...

Harper's Weekly cover showing the scene in the House on the passage of the 13th amendment to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified ...