You aren't reading carefully enough. Article XIV, as I previously wrote and as I documented in three separate links, was a separately ratified provision of the Illinois State Constitution in 1848 put before the voters and passed in 1848. The law preventing blacks from crossing the Illinois border was passed by the legislature in 1853 and in accordance with Article XIV of the 1848 Constitution.
And how can this mysterious missing article be slipped in so neatly between Article XIII and the Schedule, both of which appear in the text of the 1848 constitution that I provided earlier?
Considering that you now have both the text of Article XIV and three separate links detailing its nature, how you could consider it either mysterious or missing is beyond me. That said, it is with ease that they placed it where they did because Article XIII was the final provision of that nature. After all, where else were they to place Article XIV except for after Article XIII? Randomly inserted half way through Article III?
Looks like a conspiracy of massive proportions to me
A conspiracy to keep free blacks from living in Illinois and to severely penalize those few who did make it there anyway? Yeah. Pretty much.
I'm just considering the source.
A conspiracy to keep free blacks from living in Illinois and to severely penalize those few who did make it there anyway? Yeah. Pretty much.
Obviously they weren't very good at it, given the growth in the black population. Maybe they should have talked to the states that were more successful at it?