My next proposition, therefore, is this: That as Congress can do nothing excepting what it is empowered to do by the constitution, and as the constitution does not empower it to establish slavery here, it cannot establish slavery here, nor continue it.
Mann argues that Congress cannot establish slavery because it lacks constitutional empowerment to do so.
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