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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 8

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Richard Brookhiser

    The one really nuclear step the federal government could have taken - had it been securely controlled by opponents of slavery - would be to ban the interstate slave trade. Would have strangled slavery in Virginia & Maryland quickly.https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1424539923802214409 …

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    Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser
    Without the prospect of continuous expansion does the price of slaves begin to drop? https://twitter.com/JamesWithers3/status/1424522358887440384 …
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      2. Virginia Yankee‏ @VirginiaYankee1 Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Would have been less enforceable than the Fugitive Slave Act

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 8
        Replying to @VirginiaYankee1

        Definitely would have presented a serious test of will. But the British approach in some of their colonies was simply to deny slavery the sanction of law. No court enforcement, no probate, etc.

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      1. Ineffable Jeff‏ @IneffableJeffC Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        "Guys guys guys *everybody* was totally cool with it!" is some kind of take, for sure. It's hard to imagine how you keep generating this level of terrible, but there you go! Yet again! Bravo?

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      1. Raphael Goin-Yard‏ @THEPhilPacker Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        would have been possible if the precedent had been set early and prevented the wholesale relocation of the large contingent of northern (often Dutch speaking) slaves in NY & NJ to the expanding south.

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      2. L.R.‏ @LawLibertyOrder Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        That would be a bit more than 'regulating' commerce, wouldn't it? One argument made at the time of the embargo, especially by the carriers of the northeast, was that the embargo didn't regulate commerce, but destroyed it.

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      3. L.R.‏ @LawLibertyOrder Aug 8
        Replying to @LawLibertyOrder @baseballcrank

        I suppose the answer changes based on whether you look at any one good or commerce generally. But, it would still be hard to do when the Constitution, without using the word 'slave,' acknowledges the legality of it.

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      1. legal beagle‏ @legalisbeaglis Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        People, human beings. Not slaves. Not slave states. Human trafficking states. There fixed it for you.

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      2. Left to Beaver‏ @LeftToBeaver Aug 8
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Any genuinely nuclear option that threaten to end the peculiar institution would've just kicked off the Civil War, no?

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 8
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        Most likely, yes.

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