Assertion: amendment's power | /r/CapableOf | prohibit importation of new slaves
Facets:
value: until 1808
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Provisions allowed southern states to count slaves as 3/5 persons for purposes of apportionment in Congress (even though the slaves could not, of course, vote), expressly denied to Congress the power to prohibit importation of new slaves until 1808, and prevented free states from enacting laws protecting fugitive slaves.