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Line 1: − 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. − − ---- − − Ratified Dec. 6, 1865. This was the first amendment passed after the end of the Civil War. The purpose was to prohibit slavery. − − New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky ratified this amendment after initially rejecting it. Kentucky did not ratify this amendment until 1976, in a symbolic gesture. − − Mississippi rejected this amendment and never ratified it, but is bound by it because it had been ratified by three-quarters of the states. − − [[Category: Constitution]]
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