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To: Bull Snipe
So, you are saying he could not have abolished slavery in those states in the Union.

That is my understanding. So long as the Constitution has jurisdiction, it was legally impossible to abolish it. It would have required an amendment, or states voluntarily giving it up, though I don't know what they could have done about the "privileges and immunities clause."

221 posted on 06/17/2020 7:51:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

If all the states outlawed slavery then para.3 Sec.2 Art. IV becomes extraneous verbiage in the Constitution.

Under that clause, a state is only required to return a run-away slave. it does not prevent a state from making slavery illegal within the borders of that state.


222 posted on 06/17/2020 8:50:28 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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