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How long was the slave trade protected from constitutional amendments?
It was protected for approximately 20 years, from 1788 to 1808. Article 1, Section 9 prohibited Congress from passing any law regarding the slave trade until 1808 and Article 5 prohibited any amendment of that Article until 1808.
What was Congress prohibited from doing under the Constitution until 1808?
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 regulate the slave trade until when?
1808
What was the constitution's original position on slavery?
The constitution stated that it could not affect the slave trade until 1808. That's pretty much it.
Which of the following was one of the ways in which the Constitution addressed the issue of slavery?
Congress was not allowed to make a law banning the slave trade before 1808.
