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So neither Virginia, nor all the fifteen slave states combined, can extend their slave laws one hair’s breadth into the new territories; and for the same reason,--the territories are beyond their jurisdiction.
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Mann argues that slave states cannot extend their laws into new territories due to jurisdictional limits.
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