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�Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States�according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years and exclud
�The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808.�� --Article I, Section 9
�No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such