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The United States Congress could not touch the slave trade until 1808, as stated in the U.S. Constitution's Slave Trade Clause. This clause prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves until that year.
slave trade
The federal government could not interfere with the importation of slaves to the slave states until 1808. The context of the time was that most countries were already banning the slave trade, but the slave states wanted a few more years. Slave importation could be simplified into slave trade. The people were complaining that the government was butting into their lives to much so they made things like this for example.
Congress could not tax and it could not control or interfere with trade between the individual states.
Congress could not tax and it could not control or interfere with trade between the individual states.
Congress could not tax and it could not control or interfere with trade between the individual states.
Congress could pass laws about the slave market prior to the abolition of slavery in the United States. The slave trade was banned in the United States in 1808, and Congress could have passed laws regulating or outlawing the domestic slave trade before that date. However, the enactment of such laws would have been unlikely given the economic and political interests associated with slavery at the time.
The Commercial Compromise allowed Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce; including placing tariffs (taxes) on foreign imports, but it prohibited placing taxes on any exports. This is because the northern states wanted the central government to regulate interstate commerce and foreign trade. The South was afraid that export taxes would be put on agricultural products such as tobacco and rice.
1808
congress could not tax exports