...within their borders. The first clause of section 9, article 1, of the Federal Constitution provides that "The migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." The adoption of this clause was regarded as a victory for the slaveholding element, as under it Congress...

...another and more special provision inserted in the Constitution from abundant caution has declared 'that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808'; that this Commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said...

...President Jefferson and the Congress. The federal constitution (section 9 of the first article) provided that "the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." This was a compromise arrived at in the constitutional convention after long debate between the delegates...

...another and more special provision inserted in the Constitution from abundant caution has declared, "that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." That this Commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said...

...a State institution. In the ninth section of the first article of the Constitution, it is provided "that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." In the...

...constant anxiety of this nation to suppress the African slave trade, afford ample testimony that she will be the last to persevere in measures wisely digested,...legislated on the subject, wherever its power extended, and endeavored, by a system of rigorous penalties, to suppress this unnatural trade. The act of Congress...

...another and more special provision, inserted in the Constitution from abundant caution, has declared that "the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808;" that this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends, described as the subject of the said...

...perpetuated slavery. Article One, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States provides that "the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." This clause represents a political agreement by the framers of the Constitution to protect the slave...

...continuance in the new constitution. As a result, Article I, section 9, of the Constitution of 1787 decreed that "The migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." Part...

...republic on the principle of the slave trade for twenty years. It provided — in article I, section 9 — that the "Migration or Importation of such Persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person." That...