the Republican leadership's response to emancipation.

是共和党领导人对解放运动的回应
Well of course the Thirteenth Amendment is too,

当然第十三条修正案也是
but the Thirteenth Amendment, you'll remember,

但第十三条修正案你们应当记得
has a second clause that said

其中的第二条款指出
"Congress shall pass all appropriate legislation,

"国会应当通过所有合适的法令
to enforce it." All right, now how do you enforce the end of slavery?

去敦促第一条款的施行" 你如何做到呢
What is the end of slavery going to mean?

奴隶制的结束意味着什么呢
Or, as you were discussing in sections yesterday,

或者说如你们昨天所讨论的
and as Foner's chapter addresses, what did freedom mean?

夫纳也曾发难道究竟什么是自由
What the amendment did is it enshrined birthright,

修正案将人生而拥有的权力具化
and it enshrined at least two things into the Constitution.

它将至少两件事情写到了宪法中
Even though they're ill-defined at first

尽管它们起初的定义并不明晰