13th Amendment Annotated Bibliography
Joseph Cruz 3/22/2012
Annotated Bibliography: 13th Amendment The genre of “Saving the Right to Organize” would be an article. This would be a secondary source because it is an article, and it refines the primary source. The topic of this source would be that it focuses on the 13th Amendment replacing the Wagner Act on labor movements in the U.S. Percentage of U.S. workers who were unionized in 1953. A good thesis from this source would be Mark Dudzic’s words, “Articulating [worker] right[s] solely as an individual [human] right leads to its ''balancing'' with other rights .. .for example. . . the “"free speech rights"” of employers.” This thesis shows that workers that had rights as an individual led to the balancing of other rights. This being said, the 13th Amendment not only abolished slavery, but it led to other rights being created for them. In this source I think there are only two main points. One important point from this source would be the hardships people faced by joining the unions. African Americans in the past already put up with being labor workers to an actual human owner, and with this people are having to put up with being fired illegally and not being able to have their own freedom. Another important topic would be how the article brings up how unique the 13th Amendment really is. The article reads, “It is the only extant constitutional amendment that goes beyond the regulation and limitation of government duties and power to place a positive responsibility upon government to eliminate a system of labor. Its forthright language makes it ill-suited for balancing its purpose with property rights or freedom of contracts. It applies to everyone everywhere, so artificial distinctions based on occupation or sectors do not apply.” This shows that the 13th Amendments purpose is to serve not only African Americans, but everyone. Biases in this article would be the organizations that were against Labor Laws. Big businesses did not want to be
Annotated Bibliography: 13th Amendment The genre of “Saving the Right to Organize” would be an article. This would be a secondary source because it is an article, and it refines the primary source. The topic of this source would be that it focuses on the 13th Amendment replacing the Wagner Act on labor movements in the U.S. Percentage of U.S. workers who were unionized in 1953. A good thesis from this source would be Mark Dudzic’s words, “Articulating [worker] right[s] solely as an individual [human] right leads to its ''balancing'' with other rights .. .for example. . . the “"free speech rights"” of employers.” This thesis shows that workers that had rights as an individual led to the balancing of other rights. This being said, the 13th Amendment not only abolished slavery, but it led to other rights being created for them. In this source I think there are only two main points. One important point from this source would be the hardships people faced by joining the unions. African Americans in the past already put up with being labor workers to an actual human owner, and with this people are having to put up with being fired illegally and not being able to have their own freedom. Another important topic would be how the article brings up how unique the 13th Amendment really is. The article reads, “It is the only extant constitutional amendment that goes beyond the regulation and limitation of government duties and power to place a positive responsibility upon government to eliminate a system of labor. Its forthright language makes it ill-suited for balancing its purpose with property rights or freedom of contracts. It applies to everyone everywhere, so artificial distinctions based on occupation or sectors do not apply.” This shows that the 13th Amendments purpose is to serve not only African Americans, but everyone. Biases in this article would be the organizations that were against Labor Laws. Big businesses did not want to be