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stevenwooyesterday at 3:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

We still haven't fixed things caused by putting chattel slavery into the Constitution almost 150 years after a civil war.


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pavlovyesterday at 4:08 PM

Well, that's why I wrote "not impossible" rather than "likely"...

These things can be fixed even though it's difficult. Sometimes the pressure just boils over. Americans are a lot more defeatist about their politics than in many other democratic countries.

ceejayozyesterday at 3:57 PM

Hell, we deliberately left it in.

> 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.