So no more sentences that include the phrase ‘hard labor’? I guess this could be interpreted as forbidding to make prisoners do anything they don’t want to do. Funny, I was just listening to “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” earlier today. “Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun...”
Let’s cut to the chase: No amendment to change anything in the 13th Amendment could possibly be ratified by 38 states. That’s the only way to “change the language.” Silly pipe dream.