should the 13th amendment be abolished?
547116
Might as well, since it is basically useless.  Our gov't and society is actively conducting modern day slavery with the use of illegals as cheap labor
453178
No\nJust De-criminalized
1017187
No. Its unconstitutional.
1056881
Not without an amendment.   Currently there is no protection of privacy as provided in the constitution. \n\nWhat we need is even just a well written LAW, there really is no need to make amendment.
310861
It takes a lot to change the constitution. You might as well not waste your time on something as silly as changing it so an unpoopular governor can lose the Presidential election for your party. Because, it might make it harder to get a law change you do want.
410475
Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
518819
A right to privacy is implied but not directly stated in the Constitution. With the Supreme Court stacked the way it is, I doubt they will declare it unconstitutional. I have dropped my phone company (Verizon) entirely and gone with Cable Modem and VOIP.. I recommend anyone concerned about the "Big Brother" state America is becoming do the same.
180290
They can remove it from the courts jurisdiction according to the constitution
491154
A written constitution is not as open to imterpretation by time and circumstance as an unwritten one. A favorite argument from the UK is that the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. is a relic of a time gone by, when in reality it remains the will of the majority of the American people today. When we want a change, we affect that change, like the 13th and 19th Amendments.
658600
The amendment is a good idea, because it will prevent "gay marriage" proponents from shopping around for sympathetic judges who legislate from the bench in defiance of the will of the people.  (A solid majority of Americans reject legalized "gay marriage.")\n\nBut a constitutional amendment must pass two-thirds of everything -- two-thirds of the states' legislatures, two-thirds of the US House and two-thirds of the US Senate.  As good an idea as this proposed amendment is, realistically it doesn't stand much chance.
820174
That would be the appropriate time for Americans to exercise their right to bear arms.  That is the reason that amendment exists - to allow the citizens of the country the right to take up arms against their government when the government is usurping the rights of its citizens.  I would say the scenario you propose is not likely to happen, but the last six years have gotten us pretty darned close!
644771
I presume you are an American and will answer accordingly.\n\nThere are various different sources of law which protect minority rights and, of course, it depends which minority you are talking about and which "right" is at issue.\n\nThe right, for example, not to be a slave is contained in the 13th amendment which abolishes slavery as a legally permissible institution in the United States. Both the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) are also taken to give the Federal government the right to legislate concerning minority rights. \n\nThe 14th Amendment is the source of jurisdictional competence for outlawing de jure segregation while the Commerce Clause is the source of authority for banning discrimination in public accommodations.\n\nThere is a wide variety of legislation which can be said to guarantee equal opportunity to minorities ranging from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.\n\nNB:I notice one response claimed that Republicans voted against racial civil rights legislation. \n\nThis is wrong. \n\nIn fact, a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the various civil rights acts passed during the 1960's than did Democrats. \n\nAll the racist organizations that committed violence during the 60's, all the racist elected officials who fought to preserve segregation, all the racist police who arrested and beat peaceful demonstrators, were Democrats. Every single one of them, from Orville Faubus to George Wallace to Sheriff Bull Connor were life long Democrats.
1030040
No, just that it must be protected. Some poeple seem to feel that it is less important that the 1st, 3rd, and latter amendments. After all if one shuld fall, why would the others not suffer the same fate?
1039359
restore the constitution
146377
Here ya go:\nhttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.J.RES.24.IH:\nthey've already proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
28166
The Supreme Court has ruled that the draft is constitutional, though it did not really consider the 13th amendment very closely. All the opinion had to say about it was, "Finally, as we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the defense of the rights and honor of the nation as the result of a war declared by the great representative body of the people can be said to be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted by its mere statement (Arver v. United States, 245 U.S. 366 (1918))." The draft during peacetime was also upheld in an Appeals Court ruling during the Vietnam War, though the 13th amendment was not considered at all in the opinion. It is a fairly firmly established precedent in our judicial system that conscription is lawful. However, I would not say that it is impossible that such a claim would succeed. One possible argument against it is that it is inherent in Congress' right to "raise and support Armies" that it can conscript soldiers and the 13th amendment does not affect that right.
1027531
The 21st amendment was ratified in December 1993 and it repealed the 18th amendment.   I am a not aware of it having another name, but it end what is commonly called the Prohibition Era.