[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The U.S. Constitution never outlawed expansion of slavery. The CSA one did.

Did you get that from Durand, too? I direct your attention to the Confederate Constitution, Article IV, Sec. 3, Clause 3:

3) The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

Just repeating an inaccuracy doesn't make it accurate.

Indeed.

[phi11yguy19]

Nope, same document you cited. As a limitation on the general government:

Section 9 - Limits on Congress, Bill of Rights 1. The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.

The U.S. Constitution didn't have that...they gave it 20 years before congress could CONSIDER regulating the slave trade, but left it up to the whim of the day to decide.

Why is reading so difficult around here?