40 incentives to maintain and even expand slavery. If a State freed its slaves and the freedmen then moved away, the State might actually lose Horse seats; conversely, if it imported or bred more slaves, it could increase its congressional clout. Article II likewise handed slave States extra seats in the Electoral College, giving the South a sizable head start in presidential elections. Presidents inclined toward slavery could in turn be expected to nominate proslavery candidates. Article III vested all Federal Courts with judicial power of the United States. Article IV obliged free states to send fugitive slaves back to slavery, in contravention of background choice-of-law rules and general principles imposed no of immediate comity. or That long-run article also constitutional restrictions on slaveholding in Federal territory. Article V gave the international slave trade temporary immunity from constitutional amendment, in seeming violation of the people’s inalienable right to amend at any time, and came close to handing slave