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Preamble · Seven Articles
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Amendment XIII · Section 2

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Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865. (Note: A portion of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution was changed by the 13th Amendment.)

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