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They're going to now really rehearse publicly the idea that
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"yes, slavery may be protected constitutionally
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where it already exists,
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because slaves are legally property.
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Okay, we've heard that for decades, they're going to say.
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But the federal government has jurisdiction over territories,
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It has jurisdiction over the district of columbia,
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And the slogan that flows from this idea of
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an anti-slavery interpretation of the constitution is
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"make freedom national, slavery sectional."
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That slavery shall forever be, they say, a regional, sectional,
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Local institution, not a national institution,