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by birdofhermes
850 days ago
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The 13th Amendment belongs to a different document than the Constitution proper and was ratified about eighty years later. From the standpoint of the dominant school of constitutional interpretation, the distinction matters. |
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In fact, to the extent that there's a distinction, it's that amendments take priority over the previous version of the document. Obviously they'd have to; otherwise that would just mean you can't amend the original document.
According to the current version of the US constitution, which is the only one that matters, slavery is legal in exactly that one circumstance.