[Texasforever]

On that, I agree. Further, I don't believe that the court has the authority of judicial review as usurped in Marbury v. Madison.

Well the 14th amendment forever encased M v M into concrete. The 13th amendment isn't called the judges playground for nothing.

[Tree of Liberty]

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were agreed to under duress. Washington forced the South to agree to them in order to shorten reconstruction and allow the southern states back fully into a Union that the North asserts they never left.

Without that blackmail, there wouldn't have been the 3/4 of the states needed to enact the amendments.

[BohDaThone]

The 13th amendment abolished Slavery.