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To: RaceBannon

Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of 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 the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


86 posted on 03/19/2009 10:03:25 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Windcatcher

This mandatory service issue was an old Kennedy policy that they attempted to make into state law in Maryland in 1992.
The mandatory aspect is precisely why many people object to the regulation. Edwina L. Green, president of the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers, said it would be an imposition on working-class students who had jobs, on students involved in trying to get academic or sports scholarships to college, on students who were single parents, and on students who live in rural areas where there might be a scarcity of volunteer opportunities.

And the Maryland State Teachers Association calls the requirement unconstitutional, both as a forced imposition of values that violates the First Amendment and as involuntary servitude that violates the 13th Amendment.

Service Rule Stirs Debate in Maryland http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDA113CF93AA15754C0A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all


87 posted on 03/19/2009 10:09:10 PM PDT by anglian
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Just one more in the list of liberal hypocrisy, they go batsh*t if someone mentions the draft - but for Obama they’ll do this “draft”.


91 posted on 03/19/2009 10:37:35 PM PDT by Brytani (Obama's Hope and Change - Hope for terrorists and Change left in our wallets)
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“...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”

...and all it will take is to make laws that create instant criminals out of resistance. Then XIII will not be applicable.

146 posted on 03/20/2009 8:32:38 AM PDT by woollyone (I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
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