Which provision of the original Constitution
allows Congress to enact legislation that adapts to
changing circumstances?
(1) due process
(2) elastic clause
(3) electoral college
(4) Three-fifths Compromise
Base your answer to question 6 on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Article 6. There shall be neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude in the said territory,
otherwise than in the punishment of crimes
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted:
Provided, always, that any person escaping into
the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully
claimed in any one of the original states, such
fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed
to the person claiming his or her labor or service
as aforesaid. …
— Northwest Ordinance, 1787