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Old 01-03-2008, 10:06 PM   #321
Radar
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
It doesn't say so. Are you bringing in something from outside the Constitution?

Slaves don't migrate.
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.
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