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When i said "The U.S. Constitution never outlawed expansion of slavery. The CSA one did.", the obvious (to most people) implication was "...expansion of slavery BY TRADE". There's no way to increase the slave population (aka "expansion") except by bringing more into the country. This was already addressed in post 214, so why rehash?

Are you trying to convince us that "expansion" doesn't mean adding to the institution, but simply protecting the right if owners moved west? That would be accurately called geographic dispersion of a diminishing population, and even that was never a serious debate since big cotton isn't so big in the desert and the rockies. The CSA line you quoted was there to protect against a history of northern aggression and confiscation when southerners traveled through the territories.

More to the point, how does your (mis)interpretion change anything or have anything to do with "facts"? I clarified my point (twice) - the CSA outlawed slave trade from day one, the US did not, nor had they EVER rigidly enforced the importation act of 1807 even through the end of the war. Those are the facts presented to your original assertion that the north "did end (slavery)" before the war. Unfortunately they did not, and what you or I say about them is inconsequential.