Civil War Amendments to the Constitution Research Proposal

Civil contend Amendments to the Constitution - Research Proposal archetypeThis feat is hardly attained by many constitutions across the globe. This paper expounds on the Civil War Amendments to the constitution. According to Bond (1997 14), Civil War Amendments were made to address the welfare of African Americans in the coupled States. In particular, the amendments addressed the civil rights of African Americans and they marked the first attempts to accord equal rights to all American citizens, irrespective of their color, race and political affiliations. The Civil War Amendments to the constitutions are contained in the ordinal, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (Bond, 199735). The Thirteenth amendment that was ratify shortly after the Confederates surrendered in Virginia legally abolished slavery, which had been practiced in the country for long periods, and it was one(a) of the major points of contention in the civil war. According to, Hoemann (1987 37) the Thirteenth Ame ndment was the culmination of the Emancipation Proclamation that had in the first place been drafted to bequeath African Americans the freedom from enslavement. It was approved in the Congress on January 31 in 1865 and it was ratified eight months later in December 6 of the same year. This amendment consists of two sections (Maltz, 1990,45).