Editing Corwin Amendment (section)

==Text==
{{quote|No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.<ref name='AmendmentsNotRatified'>{{cite web|url=https://www.house.gov/house/Amendnotrat.shtml|title=Constitutional Amendments Not Ratified|access-date=2013-11-21|publisher=United States House of Representatives|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702135703/https://www.house.gov/house/Amendnotrat.shtml|archive-date=2012-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union|author=Daniel W. Crofts|year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcs3CwAAQBAJ&q=march+2%2C+1861|page=7|publisher=UNC Press Books|access-date=November 7, 2017|isbn=978-1469627328}}</ref>}}
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 (United States)|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 Compromise|three fifths]] of all other Persons", "The Migration and Importation of such Persons".<ref>David Waldstreicher, ''Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification'' (NY: Hill & Wang, 2009), "Prologue: Meaningful Silences", pp. 3–10, 98–99, 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.'"{{ISBN?}}</ref>