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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.
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 anchor for this new conception of government—a government that intervenes in private choices in order to protect individuals from exploitation—lies in the Thirteenth Amendment.
The Thirteenth Floor is the latest alternative-universe special-effects extravaganza, following Dark City , eXistenZ , and The Matrix . A team of virtual-reality technicians operates in an alternative universe, circa 1937.
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.