presonorek
Gold Member
Here is a text of the thirteenth amendment:
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
Anybody see the ginormous loophole? That loophole is being exploited to the fullest today. "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". You can be convicted of jaywalking and forced to 99 years of hard labor and there is nothing unconstitutional about it based on the 13th amendment alone. All a local or state government has to do is create a law that prohibits an action that people commit on a regular basis.
"Section 1
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.Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
Anybody see the ginormous loophole? That loophole is being exploited to the fullest today. "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". You can be convicted of jaywalking and forced to 99 years of hard labor and there is nothing unconstitutional about it based on the 13th amendment alone. All a local or state government has to do is create a law that prohibits an action that people commit on a regular basis.