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Corwin Amendment
The Corwin Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the 36th Congress on March 2, 1861 and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. Senator William H. Seward of New York introduced the amendment in the Senate and Representative Thomas Corwin of Ohio introduced it in the House of Representatives. It was one of several measures considered by Congress in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to attract the seceding states back into the Union and to entice border slave states to stay. Technically still pending before the states, it would, if ratified, shield "domestic institutions" of the states (which in 1861 included slavery) from the constitutional amendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress.〔Foner, 2010, p. 158〕
==Text==
The text refers to slavery with terms such as "domestic institutions" and "persons held to labor or service" and avoids using the word "slavery," following the example set at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to slavery in its draft of the Constitution with comparable descriptions of legal status: "Person held to Service," "the whole Number of free Persons..., three fifths of all other Persons," "The Migration and Importation of such Persons... ."〔David Waldstreicher, ''Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification'' (NY: Hill & Wang, 2009), "Prologue: Meaningful Silences", 3-10, 98-9, 113. "Madison succeeded only in getting through a semantic change...that kept the slave-trade clause from stating directly 'that there could be property in men.'"〕
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