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To: Zon
For any contract to be valid and binding both parties must be at liberty to sign on or refuse to sign on.

And under the 13th Amendment prohibition on slavery, contracts for indentured servitude, peonage, and slavery are illegal and unenforceable. But under Libertarianism, once an individual was under such a contract, they could be held captive for life and sold on the auction block like livestock.

Slavery in the name of "freedom" of contract.

1,204 posted on 01/22/2002 12:22:49 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe

And under the 13th Amendment prohibition on slavery, contracts for indentured servitude, peonage, and slavery are illegal and unenforceable. But under Libertarianism, once an individual was under such a contract, they could be held captive for life and sold on the auction block like livestock.

The XIII Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude. It states nothing about indentured servitude and it says nothing about peonage. At least you got it right that slavery is prohibited by the XIII Amendment. It doesn't surprise me in the least that you continue to be dishonest.

AMENDMENT XIII

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.

1,206 posted on 01/22/2002 12:51:34 AM PST by Zon
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