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Wow, I never realized he had sailed to the same longitude before heading West!

Apparently he made it as far Ambon Island in Indonesia, so he indeed circled the globe in nine years starting and ending in the East Indies.

It was a major topic of discussion at the Confederate States Constitutional Convention; the fire-eaters lost: https://dn720307.ca.archive.org/0/items/journalofcongres00co...

In thus constructing the fundamental law, of course, a struggle has occurred in the secret sessions of the Montgomery Congress, in which those refusing to close the door against the reception of anti-slavery States have achieved a victory.

https://www.cw-chronicles.com/blog/admission-of-northern-sta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Confederat... clarifies a lot:

The U.S. Constitution states in Article IV, Section 2, "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." The Confederate Constitution added that a state government could not prohibit the rights of slave owners traveling or visiting from a different state with their slaves.

Similar to the Fugitive Slave Clause, this does not invalidate the Dred Scott opinion that "a State may unquestionably prohibit slavery within its territory."

Very interesting, but are you sure about that example?

Const. of C.S.A. art. I, § 9, ¶ 4 restricted their federal legislature's power:

No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

The next section similarly restricted the states' power to "pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law" but did not reference slavery.

47 CFR § 97.403: Safety of life and protection of property.

No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available.

_Pinky and the Brain_ edition:

In Italy under the Borgias, they had thirty years of murder, bloodshed and warfare. And they produced indigestible noodles, boring operas and the FIAT. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese in the world and Heidi!

:)