The passage is: Here there is a sort of question, call it historical, of which we are only glimpsing today, the conception, the formation, the gestation, the labor.

这段话是：,有一个问题吧，关于历史的，我们今天只粗略地看看，它的设想，构成，妊娠，和分娩。

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But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

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