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with the original States, with or without involuntary
service or labor, as the Constitution of such new State may
provide.

ARTICLE 2. Territory shall not be acquired by the United
States, unless by treaty; nor, except for naval and
commercial stations and depots, unless such treaty shall be
ratified by four-fifths of all members of the Senate.

ARTICLE 3. Neither the Constitution, nor any amendment
thereof, shall be construed to give Congress power to
regulate, abolish, or control within any State or Territory
of the United States, the relation established or recognized
by the laws thereof touching persons bound to labor or
involuntary service therein, nor to interfere with or
abolish involuntary service in the District of Columbia
without the consent of Maryland and without the consent of
the owners, or making the owners who do not consent just
compensation; nor the power to interfere with or prohibit
representatives and others from bringing with them to the
City of Washington, retaining, and taking away, persons so
bound to labor; nor the power to interfere with or abolish
involuntary service in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States within those States and
Territories where the same is established or recognized; nor
the power to prohibit the removal or transportation, by
land, sea, or river, of persons held to labor or involuntary
service in any State or Territory of the United States to
any other State or Territory thereof where it is established
or recognized by law or usage; and the right during
transportation of touching at ports, shores, and landings,
and of landing in case of distress, shall exist. Nor shall
Congress have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation
on persons bound to labor than on land.

ARTICLE 4. The third paragraph of the second section of the
fourth article of the Constitution shall not be construed to
prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of their judicial and ministerial
officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from
labor to the person to whom such service or labor is due.

ARTICLE 5. The foreign slave-trade and the importation of
slaves into the United States and their Territories, from
places be