The Unconstitutionality of Urban Poverty

Authors

Dawinder S. Sidhu, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1-1-2012

Abstract

This Article argues that the Thirteenth Amendment is a proper federal vehicle for correcting the conditions of the urban underclass. The Amendment, I posit, contemplates federal intervention in the state and local governments' handling of its most troubled areas. Such federal involvement is appropriate because those responsible for these physical areas have not ensured that their residents have the necessary predicates for full and independent participation in society. The Thirteenth Amendment, in other words, supports the federal government's establishment of a minimum floor of economic and educational conditions such that the urban underclass may possess meaningful horizontal and vertical liberty, as defined in this Article.

Publication Title

DePaul Law Review

Volume

62

Issue

1

First Page

1

Recommended Citation

Dawinder S. Sidhu, The Unconstitutionality of Urban Poverty, 62 DePaul Law Review 1 (2012).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/307