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the 13thh amendment abolished slavary.
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"Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex that was legally licensed and performed in another state?" the two important questions that the supreme court was trying to answer after a group of same-sex couples sue their states to challenge the constitutionality of their states ban on same same-sex marriage. 5-4, yes to both questions