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  1. Dec 2025
    1. 4. That the laws for the suppression of the African slave-trade and especially those prohibiting the importation of slaves in the United States, ought to be made effectual, and ought to be thoroughly executed; and all further enactments necessary to those ends ought to be promptly made.

      Observation: This point in the article would make the slave trade easier as many restrictions came to an end. This would allow for people to transport slaves to and from Africa way easier and this would end all methods to slow the expansion of slavery. Context: This gave way for more slaves in America as there were previous limits and restrictions on the slave trade. This also helped southern slave owners by providing them with more ability to gain money and hurt northerners as there would be more competition to their factories in the north.

    2. Congress shall have no power to prohibit or hinder the transportation of slaves from one State to another, or to a Territory in which slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable rivers, or by the sea.

      Observation: This article gave southern slave owners the right to freely transport their slaves through northern states without being denied transportation. This would allow for more views of slavery in the north and any states with their own slave laws. Context: This article was written because some/most northern states in the union at the time had their own slave laws. This would allow for the denial of transportation if they withheld slaves with them or, would hinder on the slave owners themselves.

    3. Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery

      Observation: This piece of legislation states that no person of member of the federal government has the power or the ability to abolish slavery in its all. Interpretation: This bill seems out of fear to northern Republicans as southern Democrats portrayed them as scary and wanting to take their slaves. Connection: This connects to the US Constitution as the draft is outlawed, and no member of the US Government has the ability to introduce a war draft unless voted upon by the government.

    4. In all the territory of the United States now held, or hereafter acquired, situated north of latitude 36° 30′, slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, is prohibited while such territory shall remain under territorial government.

      Observation: This is the Missouri comprise. With the addition of Missouri as a state in the union the northern Republicans at the time decided to try adding it as a free state. But southern Democrats did not like that, and they let Missouri decide. It eventually becomes a slave state, so northern Republicans added Maine to the union to balance the number of slaves to free states at 13-13. Southern democrats hatted this move and later added a law that prohibited any more slave states past Missouri's southern border. Interpretation: People from the north were afraid of southern slave expansion so they pulled out moves scene to southerners as dangerous and unfair. Connection: This connects to now in days with alliances like NATO and BRICS as the opposing alliances are scene and bad and evil, so both keep adding on to the alliance.