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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

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March 21, 2026

On March 21, 1861 Senator Alexander Stephens delivered his
Cornerstone Speech, In the Cornerstone Speech he described a
Confederate government based on racial enslavement, Stephens
expected the new doctrine of the Confederacy to spread around the
world, Abraham Lincoln rejected the Confederacy’s doctrine, and
as president, declared enslaved Americans to be free, It would
take the passing of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments to enshrine the principles of the Declaration of
Independence in the Constitution, Tearing apart old political
systems permitted the rise of new ones built on a clearer view of
the meaning of the United States.

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