Also, the amendments denied Congress any power to interfere with the interstate slave trade or with slavery in the existing Southern states and made the fugitive slave law and Three-Fifths Compromise perpetual in duration.
此外，修正案还规定国会无权插手州际奴隶贸易和南方州现存的奴隶制度，并规定逃奴法和五分之三妥协都会永久持续下去。