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"If any person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this act, by force and violence, take and carry away, or cause to be taken or carried away, and shall, by fraud or false pretense, seduce, or cause to be seduced, or shall attempt so to take, carry away or seduce, any negro or mulatto, from any part or parts of this commonwealth, to any other place or places whatsoever, out of this commonwealth, with a design and intention of selling and disposing of, or of causing to be sold, or of keeping and detaining, or of causing to be kept and detained, such negro or mulatto, as a slave or servant for life, or for any term whatsoever, every such person or persons, his or their aiders or abettors, shall on conviction thereof, in any court of this commonwealth having competent jurisdiction, be deemed guilty of a felony."
—Excerpt from Pennsylvania law, 1826
Critics challenged the constitutionality of this 1826 law in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it

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  1. violated the Constitutional injunction against bills of attainder.
  2. undermined the intent of the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution.
  3. circumvented the three-fifths clause of the Constitution.
  4. was inconsistent with the "eminent domain" clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

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