Corwin Amendment in the United States
Corwin Amendment (1861)
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 403 CORWIN AMENDMENT (1861) On 2 March 1861, in a futile attempt to prevent the secession of the slaveholding states, Congress proposed, and sent to the states for ratification, a constitutional amendment designed to protect slavery in the states where it existed. The amendment, written by
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