The Thirteenth Amendment Warrior
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The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery — and it did far more than that. Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment gives Congress the power to enforce the abolition through appropriate legislation, a power the Supreme Court has held extends to eliminating every badge and incident of slavery wherever it appears in American law and life. This is not a limited power. It is a broad structural mandate to complete the work of freedom — and it has been dramatically underused.
The Thirteenth Amendment Warrior: The Complete Guide to Abolition, the Badges and Incidents of Slavery, Involuntary Servitude, and the Constitutional Roots of Civil Rights is Volume XV of Wayne Richard Evangelista's Constitutional Law Series, delivering the complete analysis of the most powerful but least understood provision in the Constitution.
Wayne Richard Evangelista traces the Thirteenth Amendment's complete history: its passage during the Civil War, the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1870 that implemented it, The Civil Rights Cases' betrayal of the badges and incidents doctrine, Bailey v. Alabama's application to peonage, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.'s revival of broad Section 2 enforcement power, Runyon v. McCrary's extension to private discrimination, and the modernreach of the Thirteenth Amendment into trafficking, modern servitude, and private discrimination. He also covers the academic revival of broad Thirteenth Amendment theory and its potential application in contemporary civil rights litigation.
For civil rights practitioners who need independent enforcement authority that does not depend on the Fourteenth Amendment's state action requirement, the Thirteenth Amendment is the key. This volume teaches you to use it fully.
The Thirteenth Amendment Warrior
$69.99
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$69.99
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