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The Amendments were intended to restructure the United States from a country that was (in Abraham Lincoln 's words) "half Slave and half free" to one in which the constitutionally guaranteed "blessings of liberty" would be extended to the entire populace, including the former slaves and their descendants. The Thirteenth Amendment (proposed and ratified in 1865) abolished slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868 included the Privileges Or Immunities Clause , Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, grants voting rights regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". |
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