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Old 01-09-2008, 02:58 PM   #1
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Migration is not immigration, but immigration is migration. Slaves are migrated, free people migrate. The passage gives no preference to either construction.
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Old 01-09-2008, 03:08 PM   #2
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Migration is not immigration, but immigration is migration. Slaves are migrated, free people migrate. The passage gives no preference to either construction.
Slaves migrate...free people immigrate.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 refers ONLY to slaves. It discusses the migration or importation of slaves and the fact that the federal government may not prohibit slavery from the states that want to allow slaves to be imported or migrated into those states.

It can not be construed to have any relation or connection to immigration or movement of free people by any stretch of the rational mind.
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Old 01-09-2008, 03:33 PM   #3
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Slaves migrate...free people immigrate.
And free people, when immigrating (or emmigrating, or just moving around within a country), migrate.
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Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 refers ONLY to slaves. It discusses the migration or importation of slaves and the fact that the federal government may not prohibit slavery from the states that want to allow slaves to be imported or migrated into those states.
You have yet to do more than assert that. The closest you have come to even attempting to support that assertion required you to make up a rule that free people don't migrate. I defy you to find a definition of "migrate" that has that restriction.
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Old 01-09-2008, 03:53 PM   #4
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Slaves migrate...free people immigrate.
What part of the definition of migration excludes free people?

For that matter what part of the definition of immigration excludes enforced immigration?


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