By its fundamental law it prescribed limits in point of time to its continuance, and against its own citizens who might so far forget the rights of humanity as to engage in that wicked traffic it has long since by its municipal laws denounced the most condign punishment.
Tyler highlights that U.S. law has long imposed severe penalties on citizens participating in the slave trade.
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