fncceo
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I imagine because the slave patrols weren't state bodies.
State sanctioned. Duly authorized in slave states (even allowed to operate in some non-slave states).
The US Constitution was a patchwork of compromise and contradiction on the subject of slavery. The issue that nearly prevented our nation from becoming at all was eventually settled nearly 100 years later after a bloody and protracted war.
Constitutional Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) that finally gave freed Blacks unabridged citizenship automatically imbued them with the right to Bear Arms, Free Speech, and the Right to Vote (50 years before women of any race could vote in America).
It took another 100 years to remove the impediments that various states had imposed to attempt to circumvent those Amendments but, eventually, the issue of slavery was resolved.