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Article 1 section 9 clause 4 of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. “No bill of Attainder, ex-post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”

Add two additional clauses.

Article 4, section 1, clause 1: "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired." This guaranteed that states could not end slavery within their borders because they could not legally prevent citizens from other states from bringing them in or leasing their slaves to citizens of the state.

And section 3, clause 3 stated: "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." This guaranteed any state admitted to the Confederacy would begin as a slave state.