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 ...

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 ...

Article V of the Constitution provides that two-thirds of the House and Senate can propose a constitutional amendment, which becomes part of the Constitution “when ratified by … three-fourths ...

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 ...