 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 188 páginas
...condition of involuntary servitude, a condition which the supreme law of the land declares shall not exist within the United States or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. Courts of equity have sometimes sought to sustain a contract for services requiring special knowledge... | |
 | Charles Hallan McCarthy - 1914 - 260 páginas
...except as punishSlavery ment for crime whereof the party shall have Abolished. been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction." In an early chapter It was stated that our Constitution was of slow growth. As will presently appear,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1914 - 1270 páginas
...condition of involuntary servitude — a condition which the supreme law of the land declares shall not surp that Courts of equity have sometimes sought to sustain a contract for services requiring special knowledge... | |
 | William Hawley Atwell - 1916 - 818 páginas
...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. " 'Sec. 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation.' This... | |
 | Richard Selden Harvey, Ernest Wilder Bradford - 1916 - 492 páginas
...condition of involuntary servitude — a condition which the supreme law of the land declares shall not exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. * * * Relief of that character has always been regarded as impracticable.* The provisions of Section... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1917 - 266 páginas
...condition of involuntary servitude — a condition which the supreme law of the land declares shall not exist within the United States or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. Courts of equity have sometimes sought to sustain a contract for services requiring special knowledge... | |
 | Harvard University. Department of Government - 1917 - 166 páginas
...representatives. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude " within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction," is also significant as showing that there may be places within the jurisdiction of the United States... | |
 | Percy Keese Fitzhugh - 1919 - 442 páginas
...involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. If this little clause had been included by the original framers of the Constitution, what heart-rending... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 730 páginas
...to the Constitu tion. This amendment provides that: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction." Bj December, 1865, three-fourths of the states had ratified this amendment, and it Ix^came a part of... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1923 - 602 páginas
...representatives. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude "within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction," is also significant as showing that there may be places within the jurisdiction of the United States... | |
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One who is placed under such constraint is in a condition of involuntary servitude, — a condition which the supreme law of the land declares shall not exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. 
