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[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6517077]Responses in bold.

[QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6517048]"you may not go outside OR play video games" means plying video games=going outside?

[B]Not necessarily. Which is why context is important. Here the context is given clearly in the first paragraph I quoted, which I will do here again for you:

[QUOTE]As to the intention of the framers of the Constitution in the clause relating to "the migration and importation of persons, ...

[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6517038]Responses in bold.

[QUOTE=Sonny Tufts;6516960]Although the Migration Clause may have arisen out of the slavery issue, the language that ultimately found its way into the Constitution didn't confine the operation of the Clause to the slave trade, and Madison certainly didn't think it was so confined:

[QUOTE]But some of the States were not only anxious for a Constitutional provision against the introduction of slaves. They had scruples against ...

[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6517077]Responses in bold.

[QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6517048]"you may not go outside OR play video games" means plying video games=going outside?

[B]Not necessarily. Which is why context is important. Here the context is given clearly in the first paragraph I quoted, which I will do here again for you:

[QUOTE]As to the intention of the framers of the Constitution in the clause relating to "the migration and importation of persons, ...

[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6516890][QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6516577]I'll take Jefferson's word over the Heritage Foundation's any day.

The exercise, by our own citizens, of so much commerce as may suffice to exchange our superfluities for our wants, may be advantageous for the whole. But, it does not follow, that with a territory so boundless, it is the interest of the whole to become a mere city of London, to carry on the business of one half the world at the expense of eternal war with the ...