The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation / Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952

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[2] 16 Wall. 36 (1873).

[3] Ibid. 69, 71-72.

[4] 203 U.S. 1 (1906).

[5] Ibid. 16-17.

[6] Pursuant to its enforcement powers under section 2 of this amendment, Congress, on March 2, 1867 adopted a statute (14 Stat. 546), which is now found in 8 U.S.C.A. § 56 and 18 U.S.C.A. § 1581, by the terms of which peonage was prohibited, and persons returning any one to a condition of peonage were subjected to criminal punishment. This statute was upheld in Clyatt v. United States, 197 U.S. 207 (1905).

[7] Peonage Cases, 123 F. 671 (1903).

[8] 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.

[9] Ibid. 244.

[10] 235 U.S. 133 (1914).

[11] 315 U.S. 25 (1942).