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Newsroom: Gift Supports Diversity Programming 12-15-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Gift Supports Diversity Programming 12-15-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Newsroom: Reeves Urges: 'Be Citizen Soldiers', Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Reeves Urges: 'Be Citizen Soldiers', Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Class As Caste: The Thirteenth Amendment’S Applicability To Class-Based Subordination, William M. Carter Jr.
Class As Caste: The Thirteenth Amendment’S Applicability To Class-Based Subordination, William M. Carter Jr.
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As part of a symposium marking the sesquicentennial of the Thirteenth Amendment, this Article briefly explores whether the Thirteenth Amendment applies to class-based subordination. While recognizing that the increasingly rigid class-based stratification of our society, rampant discrimination against the poor, increasing income inequality, and the concentration of enormous wealth in the hands of so few are all pressing social challenges that the legal system must address, this Article concludes that generalized class-based discrimination likely would not fall within the scope of the “badges and incidents of slavery” that the Amendment prohibits.
This Article argues, however, that the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition …