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It says that those persons escaping to other States ‘shall be delivered up,’ and I confess I have always been of the opinion that it was an injunction upon the States themselves.
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Sumner interprets the Constitution's clause regarding fugitives as an obligation for states to act on behalf of escaping individuals.
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