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Even if we accept that it being in the Constitution makes it right, it is permitting slavery as a punishment and not as an expedient.
by solidsnack9000 8y ago
Even if we accept that it being in the Constitution makes it right, it is permitting slavery as a punishment and not as an expedient.
- arthur_pryor 8y agoi agree that's one way to read it, but it seems plausible to me that the intent really was just as a winnable end-run around abolition.