I said that the 13th amendment applies to citizens as well as governments. That's what I said. Not only that, but the 13th amendments applies to ANYONE in the United States.
You want to insist that the 13th amendment does not apply to individuals. But there is a problem with your position. If the 13th amendment did not apply to individuals, someone could purchase a slave in a country where slavery was permitted, bring the slave to the United States, and claim that the slave was their property. The state of ownership is imperative to the condition of slavery. There is nothing in any federal statute that states that you cannot own another human being as property. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. This is because the 13th amendment has said that slavery, the practice of owning another human being as property, simply does not exist. So the very minute that someone, anyone, a citizen or foreign national, brings a slave into the United States, that person is simply not a slave anymore. This is because the 13th amendment not only applies to governments, but to individuals as well. Therefore the Supreme Court has said:
incorrect there is nothing in 13th amendment which can be applied to citizens.......only the creation of federal law can apply to citizens.
citizens cannot be taken to court for a constitutional violation,...only a crime in the case of slavery
Again for emphasis, the 13th amendment is not a mere restriction on State laws, but is an absolute declaration that slavery simply does not exist in the United States. Therefore NO ONE, governments, citizens, or foreign nationals cannot claim human beings as properties. Property ownership involves having proof of ownership that is acceptable to the local sovereign. In the United States, no one can provide such proof of ownership. Therefore no one can be brought to trial on the accusation that they own slaves.
people can be bought to trial, under the definition of the code...if they commit such an infraction of the law, which is criminal law.....
The 13th amendment applies to individuals and government. And the 16th amendment gives Congress power over a type of property, namely income.
wrong the 13 and the 16th do not mention people
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.
the Congress shall have power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
It does not. And you have provided no examples that demonstrate this. What you have done is taken the use of the word slavery in chapter and subsection titles and conflated that with a definition of slavery. It's absurd.
the code defines what slavery is.
There is no crime of slavery in United States code. This is because no one can claim a slave to be property in the United States because of the 13th amendment.
the code defines what slavery is.
No, that is the title of a chapter. There is no attempt to define slavery or prescribe punishment for it in any of the sections of that chapter.
the code defines what slavery is.
Forced labor is not the same as slavery. Slavery denotes an owner and property, the slave. Forced labor does not necessarily denote ownership. Your position that forced labor is defined as slavery is absurd.
federal statutes
18 U.S. Code Chapter 77 -
PEONAGE, SLAVERY, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
§ 1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement
§ 1582. Vessels for slave trade
§ 1583. Enticement into slavery
§ 1584. Sale into involuntary servitude
§ 1585. Seizure, detention, transportation or sale of slaves
§ 1586. Service on vessels in slave trade
§ 1587. Possession of slaves aboard vessel
§ 1588. Transportation of slaves from United States
§ 1589. Forced labor
§ 1590. Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
§ 1591. Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion
§ 1592. Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
§ 1593. Mandatory restitution
§ 1593A. Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons
§ 1594. General provisions
§ 1595. Civil remedy
§ 1596. Additional jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses
§ 1597. Unlawful conduct with respect to immigration documents
§ 1588. Transportation of slaves from United States
§ 1589.Forced labor
§ 1590.Trafficking with Respect to Peonage, Slavery, Involuntary Servitude, or Forced Labor
§ 1591.Sex Trafficking of Children or by Force, Fraud, or Coercion
§ 1592.Unlawful Conduct with Respect to Documents in Furtherance of Trafficking, Peonage, Slavery, Involuntary Servitude, or Forced Labor
the code defines what would be ...peonage-- slavery-- human trafficking.