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This, however, is the deep disgrace with which the Apportionment Amendment threatens the Constitution and the country.… It is true that Slavery is not literally in the Amendment.
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He warns that the Apportionment Amendment poses a deep disgrace to the Constitution, even if slavery is not explicitly mentioned.
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