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To: Roscoe
They reject the morality of the 13th Amendment.

Another lie from a world class liar.

They reject immoral buffoons like you.

27 posted on 03/26/2002 11:06:32 AM PST by Protagoras
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To: ThomasJefferson
Mr. Justice Miller, delivering the opinion of the majority of the court, after observing that the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth articles of amendment of the constitution were all addressed to the grievances of the negro race, and were designed to remedy them, continued as follows: "We do not say that no one else but the negro can share in this protection. Both the language and spirit of these articles are to have their fair and just weight in any question of construction. Undoubtedly, while negro slavery alone was in the mind of the congress which proposed the thirteenth article, it forbids any other kind of slavery, now or hereafter. If Mexican peonage or the Chinese coolie labor, system shall develop slavery of the Mexican or Chinese race within our territory, this amendment may safely be trusted to make it void.
(169 U.S. 649) UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK. (March 25, 1898)

Contract slavery, such as peonage and indentured servitude, is illegal.
28 posted on 03/26/2002 11:18:10 AM PST by Roscoe
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