[RJCogburn]

The only involvement the government should have is to enforce, if necessary, the contract you and the payer signed.

Simple.

[KC Burke]

The only involvement the government should have is to enforce, if necessary, the contract you and the payer signed.

And as the nation, at that time, wanted no artifical constructs of Contract used to continue the institution of slavery, they passed the Thirteenth to thwart statute, contract, civil or common law being used to produce artificial constructs of what they wanted prohibited for the ordered liberty of the nation