[DiogenesLamp]

In our example, the owner in Kentucky. Where slavery is legal. As opposed to Indiana. Where slavery is not. Therefore the captured runaway is returned to its owner in Kentucky, not to its owner now living in Indiana, because slave ownership is illegal there.

You are forcing onto the verbiage more specificity than the actual words convey. You are liberally interpreting it with additional requirements not in evidence from a plain reading of the text.

I'm not going to address your foray over into the Confederate Constitution because it does not have the slightest effect on what the US constitution said.

[DoodleDawg]

You are forcing onto the verbiage more specificity than the actual words convey.

I'm reading the words as written.

I'm not going to address your foray over into the Confederate Constitution because it does not have the slightest effect on what the US constitution said.

Of course you're not. Not at all surprising.