A part of Article V that is now obsolete says that "no Amendment may be made prior to the Year one thousand

Question

eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the Ninth section of the first article..". What geographical section of the country had its interests protected by these clauses from Article I?

Answer 1

Let's look at the text --

Article I Section 9, 1st and 4th clauses:
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The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
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It protects states - the only geographical sections of the country -- who engaged in slave trading as well as those that engaged in any form of voluntary immigration. And it prevented states with variable population from being penalized.

Answer 2

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The south had its interests protected. That part of Article V ensured that the slave trade would not be abolished for the twenty years after the Constitution was written (from 1789 to 1808). Because the slave trade was guaranteed to exist for twenty years, the south could profit from the slave trade during those years. Note that this is not the same as protecting SLAVERY. The slave TRADE -- that is, the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean -- was protected. After 1808, slavery was till leval; however, all slaves had to be "domestic," i.e., from the U.S.

This clause of Article V was a compromise between the northern states, that wanted to end the slave trade, and the southern states, that wanted to keep it indefinitely.

Answer 3

There is no real purpose for retaining these items in the document other than that the Constitution is not amended my removing text from the document (known as Amendment by Revision), but by a process known as Amendment by Addition. This is why the original portions of the text dealing with Presidential elections and the election of Senators by state legislatures remain the document, but are no longer in force.