The answer would be: The Fugitive Slave Act.
It states that anyone who sees a runaway slave must report it or they themselves can get punished.
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the goernemt cannot stop peoplr from practicing their religion.
The government can't create a national religion or make laws that religious organizations have to follow.
The three-fifths compromise was when the Northern and Southern states decided to make an enslaved person count as 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation. This shows back then that Americans viewed slaves as property and didn't want them to count as a real person.
He thought that the United States should act independently.
