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At the time the amendment was enacted, it was fairly clear that the drafters and the public had a broad construction in mind, for the Thirteenth Amendment became the constitutional foundation in 1866 for the first Civil Rights Act—indeed, the Act that is still used today to prosecute those who, like the police who beat up Rodney King, engage in racially motivated deprivations of civil rights.
Academic writers have found the Thirteenth Amendment a rich source for constitutional speculation.
The Thirteenth Amendment charges the federal government with the responsibility to make sure that neither “slavery” nor “involuntary servitude” shall come to exist in the United States.
The WP waits until the thirteenth paragraph of its story to mention the fertility drugs involved and that such drugs are frowned upon by many doctors.
As my rewriting of the Thirteenth Amendment would have it: Securing and protecting the autonomy of labor would become the duty of all state power.