The quote below is taken from the thirteenth amendment. 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. which statement identifies the purpose of this amendment?

to act quickly in times of danger to the united states

because you have to act quickly if you want to live/survive.

"the attempts of the proletariat to rise above this abasement"

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv