Editing Corwin Amendment (section)

==Ratification history==
The Corwin Amendment has been ratified by:
[[File:Corwin Amendment state ratification map 2022.svg|thumb|right|upright=.90|{{legend|#377eb8|Ratified amendment}}{{legend|#9EC7F3|Ratified, then rescinded}}{{legend|#984ea3|Ratification questionable}}]]
# [[Kentucky]]: April 4, 1861<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/kentuckysession00kentgoog|quote=amendment Kentucky April 4, 1861.|work=Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Called Session which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Thursday, the 17th Day of January 1861 and Ended on Friday, the Fifth Day of April 1861|title=Resolution 10|publisher=Commonwealth of Kentucky|year=1861|location=Frankfort|pages=[https://archive.org/details/kentuckysession00kentgoog/page/n72 51]–52|language=en|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
# [[Ohio]]: May 13, 1861<ref>58 Ohio Laws 190</ref> (rescinded ratification – March 31, 1864)<ref>61 Ohio Laws 182</ref>
# [[Rhode Island]]: May 31, 1861<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcs3CwAAQBAJ|title=Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union|last=Crofts|first=Daniel W.|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2016|isbn=9781469627328|location=Chapel Hill|pages=245–250|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=[[c:File:Corwin Amendment ratified by Rhode Island.png|Adoption of the Corwin Amendment]]|date=June 3, 1861|work=Providence Evening Press|page=2}}</ref>
# [[Maryland]]: January 10, 1862<ref name=holzer429>Harold Holzer, ''Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861'' (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 429</ref><ref>''Laws of the State of Maryland, Made and Passed At a Session of the General Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on the third day of December 1861, and ended on the tenth day of March 1862.'' (Chapter 21, pages 21 and 22)</ref> (rescinded ratification – April 7, 2014)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rescission of Maryland's Ratification of the Corwin Amendment to the United States Constitution|url=https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&stab=03&id=sj0001&tab=subject3&ys=2014RS|publisher=General Assembly of Maryland|access-date=April 10, 2014}}</ref>
# [[Illinois]]: June 2, 1863<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lawsofstateofill1863illi|title=Public Laws of the State of Illinois Passed by the Twenty-Third General Assembly Convened January 5, 1863|last=Illinois General Assembly|publisher=Baker & Phillips|year=1863|location=Springfield|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lawsofstateofill1863illi/page/41 41]–42}}</ref> (rescinded ratification – April 4, 2022)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rescission of Illinois's Ratification of the Corwin Amendment to the United States Constitution|url=https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=22&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SJR&SessionID=110&GA=102|publisher=General Assembly of Illinois|access-date=January 6, 2023}}</ref>

On February 14, 1862, prior to the 1863 ratification of the amendment by the [[Illinois General Assembly]], an Illinois state constitutional convention purported to ratify the Corwin Amendment. However, since Illinois state lawmakers were sitting as delegates to a convention at the time&mdash;and not meeting as the actual state legislature&mdash;that action was of questionable validity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Philip L.|date=March 1967|title=Convention Ratification of Federal Constitutional Amendments|journal=Political Science Quarterly|volume=82|issue=1|pages=67–71|doi=10.2307/2147300|jstor=2147300}}</ref>

The [[Restored Government of Virginia]], consisting mostly of representatives of what would become [[West Virginia]], voted to approve the amendment on February 13, 1862.<ref name=":0" /> However, West Virginia did not ratify the amendment after it became a state in 1863.

In 1963, more than a century after the Corwin Amendment was submitted to the state legislatures by Congress, a joint resolution to ratify it was introduced in the [[Texas House of Representatives]] by [[Dallas]] Republican [[Henry Stollenwerck]].<ref>House Joint Resolution No. 67, 58th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 1963</ref> His reason for doing so was likely related to protecting other 'domestic institutions', as he stated his opposition to slavery. His joint resolution was referred to the House's Committee on Constitutional Amendments on March 7, 1963, but received no further consideration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.progress.org/archive/texas-35-years-ago|title=Slavery: Just a 'Detail'?|publisher=The Progress Report|date=August 13, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626102420/https://www.progress.org/archive/texas-35-years-ago|archive-date=June 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>