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The Constitution of the United States of America

Note 8 — AMENDMENT 13

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219 U.S. 219 (1911). Justice Holmes, who was joined by Justice Lurton, dissented on the ground that a State was not forbidden by this amendment from punishing a breach of contract as a crime. "Compulsory work for no private master in a jail is not peonage."—Ibid. 247.

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