The Compromise of 1850 was actually a terrible deal for the slave states, who among other things immediately lost the 50/50 split in the Senate, when they were already outnumbered in the House & the Electoral College.pic.twitter.com/2GWtsrfHfP
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Article IV, §2 cl. 3, as interpreted by SCOTUS in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 539, 622 (1842).
Yeah, but that was a bullshit decision. All the fugitive slave clause said was that a free state couldn’t free a slave. It says nothing about capturing slaves
Merits of the decision remain debatable, but Congress and the states were stuck with it after 1842.
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