I'm glad we finally got that straightened out. :p

Someone here gets it.

dignity? When did I get that? I certainly want to keep that. :jig:

It doesn't say so. Are you bringing in something from outside the Constitution?

Slaves don't migrate.

...not by choice anyway.

They migrate the same way cattle do. Their masters take them from one place to another. Slaves are imported. Slaves are property for which you paid a duty or a tax to import. Free people are not imported, are not property, and do not require a tax or a duty. The clause can only refer to slavery and our founders said so, the Supreme Court said so, the U.S. government and every single law school in America say so, and most of all the U.S. Constitution says so through the use of words like import, duty, tax, and migration rather than immigration.

Owned animals don't migrate; free ones do.

The tax applies to imports (slaves), not migrants. The paragraph bars Congress from interfering with imports AND migration, up to a certain date, but allows a tax or duty on imports only. No tax for migration.

The Supreme Court, the US Government, and every single law school in America all say the Federal government can regulate immigration. I thought you didn't want to bring them into the argument.

Migration refers to movement, not merely natural migrations, but forced ones. The Duty and Tax refer to an imported good; specifically the slave. The importation (bringing property into America) and migration (moving the livestock...aka slaves into different states to be sold) of slaves can only apply to slaves, and not the immigration of free people.

The Constitution says that the federal government may not have implied powers or the power to restrict or legislate immigration.

Radar, you keep telling us what this or that particular passage "refers to" ??? If it is so clear, then why do you have to keep explaining what it means, is applicable to, defining or relegating?
I was thinking about what UT showed us a few days back - we are all wrong! Those guys were way ahead of us and foresaw these very same arguments that we are having today. Thats why some argue that passages or phrases in the constitution are intentionally vague. Perhaps they entrusted future leaders to do the right things and apply the "implied meaning" to the current world or situations.
Certainly they didn't want us to stagnate in our thoughts and ideas or our direction for this most awesome country. I hope that we as a people have the ability and wisdom to, as a collective, choose those leaders. :2cents:

Coconuts migrate.

Here's my grate
http://www.fireplacemall.com/Grates/...26300_sp65.jpg

It's a beauty, too, Spexx. :)

Yeah, its great.

LOL! :biggrinje

Birds migrate.