Goldberg on the Founders and the Thirteenth Amendment

July 9, 2008

Conservative columnist and editor-at-large of the National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg, touted his terrible Los Angeles Times column about the voluntary national service plan offered by Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois).

In a post at The Corner, Goldberg stepped in it again.

One small point in response (I know, I know: Why bother?). The 13th amendment lists involuntary servitude and slavery as different things. If they were the same, the founders wouldn’t have wasted the ink repeating themselves.

One small point in response (I know, I know: Why bother?). The Founding Fathers were dead by the time the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865. Illinois was the first state to do so on February 1. Ratified was “completed by December 6, 1865.”