The thirteenth amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing full latitude for the enforcement of penal laws, does not destroy the prohibition. It does not permit slavery or involuntary servitude... The Forum - Page 2151922Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 760 pages
...readiest means of com- •* pulsion. The 13th* Amendment prohibits in- • voluntary servitude except as void. That is the general rule. The state may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 716 pages
...compulsion. The Thirteenth Opinion of the Court. 219 US Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the service which would constitute the other. The State may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| 1911 - 952 pages
...punishment for . crime — an exception which does not permit involuntary servitude to be established through the operation of the criminal law by making it a crime to refuse to render such service. Thus, it is reasoned, what the state may not do directly it may not do indirectly.... | |
| James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. The thirteenth amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the service which would constitute the other. The state may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| Eugene Wambaugh - 1915 - 1106 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the* service which would constitute the other. The State may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| William Lynn Ransom - 1916 - 404 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the service which would constitute the other. The State may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| William Lynn Ransom - 1916 - 392 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...the criminal law by making it a crime to refuse to subinit to the one or to render the service which would constitute the other. The State may impose... | |
| Francis Bowes Sayre - 1923 - 1072 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the service which would constitute the other. The State may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 892 pages
...the readiest means of compulsion. 244]The 13th •Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing...render the service which would constitute the other. The state may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man... | |
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