Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]
Forced labor of any one person is unconstitutional and illegal, unless used as punishment in high crime and the Congress can enforce aforementioned appropriately.
Though I do think this a tad biased on the subject by the speaker of the video, he makes a good point in the use of forced labor in prison systems. ...except as a punishment for crime...so then are prison systems themselves unconstitutional? Is forced labor for misdemeanors or non capital crimes as viable a punishment for those that are? It did not end slavery, though it was stepping in the right direction of beginning equality for those that are forced into labor.
Though I do think this a tad biased on the subject by the speaker of the video, he makes a good point in the use of forced labor in prison systems. ...except as a punishment for crime...so then are prison systems themselves unconstitutional? Is forced labor for misdemeanors or non capital crimes as viable a punishment for those that are? It did not end slavery, though it was stepping in the right direction of beginning equality for those that are forced into labor.
I've always wondered why constitutional rights don't apply completely to children. If they are US born citizens then why does servitude, forced, not apply to them. The video below has a theme of child labour in farmlands. The children are hired for a laughing amount of "pay" in return for hours and hours of dangerous working conditions with the childhood of the person working lost. The children (anyone under the age of 18 years) are forced to work to "survive" which is essentially "work or die," a sentiment of slavery when it was only thought to be the African American people suffering from slavery. Child labour or forced labour for that of tiny amounts of compensation, less than that of the cost of a soda bottle at the gas station, is slavery in the basic definition.
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