Key Concepts of American Constitutional History

POL 1311—Final Exam Study Guide C 8. Clauses concerning slavery in the Constitution

The Constitution avoided the word “slave” but protected slavery through specific clauses.

These included the Three-Fifths Clause, the Fugitive Slave Clause, and the 1808 slave

trade limit. 9. Lincoln’s reply to the secessionists Lincoln argued that

no state could leave the Union on its own because the Union was older than the Constitution.

He said secession was rebellion, not a lawful right. 10. Emancipation Proclamation:

scope and basis It freed slaves only in Confederate states still in rebellion.

Lincoln used his war powers to justify it as a military necessity. (Had power because