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:(b) "Make and enforce contracts" defined. For purposes of this section, the term "make and enforce contracts" includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.

:(b) "Make and enforce contracts" defined. For purposes of this section, the term "make and enforce contracts" includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.

   

   

:(c) Protection against impairment. The rights protected by this section are protected against impairment by nongovernmental discrimination and impairment under color of State law.

:(c) Protection against impairment. The rights protected by this section were  protected against impairment by nongovernmental discrimination and impairment under color of State law.

Violations of Section 1981 by government officials are asserted through use of [[Section 1983]].

Violations of Section 1981 by government officials were traditionally asserted through use of [[Section 1983]], but the subsection (c) was added in the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act to clarify that rights could be asserted under Section 1981 itself.

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[[category:Section 1981]]

[[category:Section 1983]]

[[category:Section 1983]]