''Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.'', 392 U.S. 409 (1968), is a

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case, which held that Congress could regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination: " /nowiki>/nowiki> bars all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale or rental of property, and that the statute, thus construed, is a valid exercise of the power of Congress to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment." The

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(passed by Congress over the veto of

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) provided the basis for this decision as embodied by . Reversing many precedents, the Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibited both private and state-backed discrimination and that the 13th Amendment authorized Congress to prohibit private acts of discrimination as among "the badges and incidents of slavery." Congress possessed the power to "determine what are the badges and incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation."

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