Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Badge of slavery
1. Strictly, a legal disabiiity suffered by a slave, such as the inability to vote or to own property. 2. Broadly, any act of racial discrimination - public or private - that congress can prohibit under the 13th amendment.
Slavery
1. A situation in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another. 2. The practice of keeping individuals in such a state of bondage or servitude. • Slavery was outlawed by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "Slavery was a big problem for the Constitution makers. Those who profited by it insisted on protecting it; those who loathed it dreaded even more the prospect that to insist on abolition would mean that the Constitution would die aborning. So the Framers reached a compromise, of sorts. The words 'slave' and 'slavery' would never be mentioned, but the Constitution would safeguard the 'peculiar institution' from the abolitionists." Jethro K. Lieberman, The Evolving Constitution 493 (1992).
slavery, badge of
See BADGE OF SLAVERY.
white slavery.
The practice of forcing a female or, rarely, a male) to engage in commercial prostitution. ( Trafficking in white slavery is prohibited by the Mann Act X18 LI-,C:1§§ 2421--2424 I