> What a strange take. Why would the passage of a proposition redefine the reality of the situation? If the proposition was passed, and the State acted in acco

> What a strange take. Why would the passage of a proposition redefine the reality of the situation? If the proposition was passed, and the State acted in accord with it (as I stated before, not just the passage, but the action), then the labor would not be coerced, because the mechanisms by which it is currently coerced would be prohibited. That was the whole point of the amendment, banning California continuing to exploit the penal servitude exception to the 13th Amendment ban on slavery and involuntary servitude.