Yes, Tennessee voters can keep or remove slavery from the state Constitution

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/politics/tennessee-amendment-3-state-constitution-election/522-9057fc49-95a0-402b-8e66-3e9eede3da08

The document from 1870 is still the fundamental charter for the state. The "Slavery Loophole,” as some call it, was never removed.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennesseans will vote on four amendments to our state Constitution in a few weeks.

Amendment 3 addresses slavery and involuntary servitude.

Right now, Article I, Section 33 of the Tennessee Constitution reads:

"That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are forever prohibited in this State."

More at link.

Wtaf?

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Dixie lives.

Like fascism.

[SheltieLover]

2. TN, the red hellhole, a perpetual international disgrace!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. I assume Tennessee wasn't sending...

... black people to plantations for free labor in RECENT years, if they didn't have ID while trying to vote.

Lack of official ID was one excuse, after the Civil War, for people to be punished in the South for that supposed "crime" with continued slavery!

Disgusting, and that old state law indeed needs rectified!

[SheltieLover]

4. This state is sickening on so many levels

But this takes the fking cake!

If this doesn't motivate people of color to vote, nothing will!

[3auld6phart]

14. H,mmn

Does Tennessee have private prisons? Same thing as slavery ,isn’t it?

[KS Toronado]

5. Strange little twist.........

Old language

"That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are forever prohibited in this State."

The new language under Amendment 3 reads:

"Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an inmate
from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime."

Did some inmate refuse to make license plates?

[SheltieLover]

7. How can this be legal?

[Rincewind]

20. It could be legal

because the 13th Amendment also allows involuntary servitude as punishment if convicted of a crime. Look it up, I did, and it surprised me.

[samnsara]

6. now if they only get rid of sweeeeeet teeeeeaaaaa

[SheltieLover]

8. And fking biscuits

[samnsara]

9. some of these old laws just hang around un noticed until something happens..

..wash state still had no laws against bestiality until about 15 yrs ago some guy died trying to make it with a horse.

[SheltieLover]

10. Yes, but this is by design

[SheltieLover]

11. See new language in #5 👆

[nuxvomica]

12. It's the same as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Consitution

"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."

[SheltieLover]

13. Well this needs to go!

[nuxvomica]

16. Agreed

It's always bothered me that they kept that. Even with that included, the 13th Amendment still clearly prohibits forced pregnancy, unless one considers pregnancy to be no effort at all.

[SheltieLover]

18. Of course pregnancy is no effort, for males

If men could conceive, abortion would be a sacrament.

[dalton99a]

15. NEXT: Lawmakers name Mountain Dew the official baby formula of Tennessee

[SheltieLover]

19. Bazinga!

You win the thread.

Get those infants on the fast tract fod diabetes asap. Very profitable for qpukes.

[sarisataka]

17. It matches the US Constitution

So maybe the citizens of Tennessee should be applauded for considering removing it. I am unaware of any push to amend the Constitution removing the same clause.