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In the United States, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime of which one has been convicted.
In Steirer v. Bethlehem Area School District , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rules that a high school community service requirement does not constitute involuntary servitude prohibited by the 13th Amendment.
An 1865 amendment to the US Constitution that forbids slavery and forced labor except, as regards the latter, as punishment for crime. Related Terms: Eleventh (11th) Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.
"Involuntary servitude involves a condition of having some of the incidents of slavery. "It may include situations in which persons are forced to return to employment by law. "It may also include persons who are physically restrained by guards from leaving employment.
Amdt13. Thirteenth Amendment, 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.
Actually, the US Constitution says that slavery is ok when it is the punishment for a crime.If you volunteer to work at a charity event you are not a slave, and the many slaves who were given money or other compensation throughout the ages were not less enslaved on account of it.
Despite its significance in American history, the Thirteenth Amendment is not one of the more frequently invoked parts of our Constitution today. Now that slavery is a part of our past, the Amendment's current relevance is subject to debate.
(f) Involuntary Servitude refers to a condition of enforced and compulsory service induced by means of any scheme, plan or pattern, intended to cause a person to believe that if he or she did not enter into or continue in such condition, he or she or another person would suffer serious harm or other forms of abuse