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1814] rence of two-thirds of both Houses, to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and any foreign nation or the dependencies thereof.

Fifth.—Congress shall not make or declare war, or authorize acts of hostility against any foreign nation, without the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses, except such acts of hostility be in defense of the territories of the United States when actually invaded.

Sixth.—No person who shall hereafter be naturalized, shall be eligible as a member of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, nor capable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States.

Seventh.—The same person shall not be elected President of the United States a second time; nor shall the President be elected from the same State two terms in succession.

Resolved.—That if the application of these States to the government of the United States, recommended in a foregoing Resolution, should be unsuccessful, and peace should not be concluded, and the defense of these States should be neglected, as it has been since the commencement of the war, it will in the opinion of this Convention be expedient for the Legislatures of the several States to appoint Delegates to another Convention, to meet at Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, on the third Thursday of June next, with such powers and instructions as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require.  THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, 1820. An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri territory included within the boundaries hereinafter designated, be, and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government ; and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state when formed, shall be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever. . . . Sec. 8. And be it furtlier enacted. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisi- ana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby forever prohibited ; Provided always. That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United 