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Involuntary Servitude

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It is service that is not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice. Basically you are forced to do it.
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except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
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I’ve written on jury duty before (http://www.progress.org/fold99.htm), but that was years ago, and there is a new aspect to it of which I was not previously aware. In California, Code of Civil Procedure 211 authorizes the sheriffs and court...
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Involuntary servitude is the work a person may have to perform under coercion. They can get paid. Example which sounds like it is from the movies: A mob boss employs an accountant to work for him. The accountant figures out that his employe...
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McCain isn't my first choice by any stretch, but Obama is just downright scary to me (see the link). Great point about the 13th, BTW. His tag line is "Vote for Change". I'd feel better if I could be sure exactly what changes he th...
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Apparantly, when it's proposed by a black president. I concede that Obama has since backed off that claim, even if his key advisors haven't. But because Obama no longer advocates making his community service involuntary -- only strong rec...
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I googled and found various legal dictionaries and pdfs about human trafficking laws. They suggest that forced labor is a subset of involuntary servitude. If you want an informed legal opinion, you need to find a lawyer who specializes in t...
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the draft is constitutional, though it did not really consider the 13th amendment very closely. All the opinion had to say about it was, "Finally, as we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exact...
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Involuntary servitude is commonly known as slavery, but as Wikipedia defines it, involuntary servitude is "is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some...
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The Thirteenth Amendemnt to the US Constitution provides: "Neither slavery nor involuntary sertivude, except as punishsment for crime whereof the party has been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States." By inference,...
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