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 Posted: Sun Sep 2nd, 2012 06:42 pm
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 People reacted harshly to the OP, but he’s actually partially correct.  At least to the extent that some anti-slavery activists—Horace Mann, for example—used the bills of attainder clause of the constitution to argue that slavery should be ruled unconstitutional.