But let us look to the prohibitions of the constitution; for I maintain that there is not only no power, express or implied, in the constitution authorizing Congress to create or continue slavery in this District, but that it is debarred and prohibited from doing so, again and again.
Mann asserts that the Constitution explicitly prohibits Congress from creating or continuing slavery in Washington, D.C.
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