by Gordon Leidner of Great American History. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery as a legal institution.he Thirteenth Amendment, in direct terminology, put an end to this. The amendment states: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Giorgio Napolitano is the President of Italy. He became the 11th President of Italy on May 15, 2006. Italy is a Parliamentary Republic. It has a 'president of the council of ministers' (prime minister - head of government - premier) and a 'president of the republic', both appointed by the parliament. <b>Giorgio Napolitano</b> is the President of Italy.
The President of the Italian Republic (Italian: Presidente della Repubblica Italiana) is the head of state of Italy and, in that role, represents national unity and guarantees that Italian politics comply with the Constitution. The president's term of office lasts for seven years. The 11th President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, was elected on 10 May 2006, and elected to a second term for the first time in Italian Republic history, on 20 April 2013. On 31 January 2015, the incumbent President, former Constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella, was elected at the fourth ballot with 665 votes out of 1,009.