Enforcement Clause of the Thirteenth Amendment

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I've heard some people argue that the Thirteenth Amendment allows  Congress to enforce not just a ban on slavery and involuntary servitude, but also to outlaw private discrimination.

I think this is an absurd violation of the plain meaning rule. Your thoughts?

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Irrelevant to the constitutional principle.

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When one private person refuses to sell a house to another person on racial grounds, that's not slavery, as any court has ever defined it. That's not involuntary servitude, as any court has ever defined.

But they argue Section 2 gives Congress sweeping power to eliminate all the "badges and vestiges and relics of slavery."

This, of course, is nonsense. The article gives Congress to enforce its provisions, not create new ones.

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They sometimes argue there would otherwise be no point to an enforcement clause.

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Can we get a function that allows us to delete posts in our own threads?