The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1862 |
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... passed to the States , severally , con- tinuing to be exercised by a general Government , as by the delegation of those States ; whereby the Government of the Union , ceasing to be a national Government , became a federal Government the ...
... passed to the States , severally , con- tinuing to be exercised by a general Government , as by the delegation of those States ; whereby the Government of the Union , ceasing to be a national Government , became a federal Government the ...
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... passed , out of the sphere of juristical discussion , and are not now to be determined by the sword . That the present volume should be published under the existing state of public affairs , was certainly not foreseen by the writer when ...
... passed , out of the sphere of juristical discussion , and are not now to be determined by the sword . That the present volume should be published under the existing state of public affairs , was certainly not foreseen by the writer when ...
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... passed eighteenth September , eighteen hundred and fifty . 2. The clerk of such county court and the sheriff of the county shall then and there attend upon said court , which may consist of two or more justices of such county , and the ...
... passed eighteenth September , eighteen hundred and fifty . 2. The clerk of such county court and the sheriff of the county shall then and there attend upon said court , which may consist of two or more justices of such county , and the ...
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... passed Feb. 4 , 1791 , recited the act of Virginia , and that " Whereas the people of the said District of Kentucky have petitioned Congress to assent , " & c . 1 U. S. St. at L. 189 ; 2 B. & D. 191. No constitution for the State had as ...
... passed Feb. 4 , 1791 , recited the act of Virginia , and that " Whereas the people of the said District of Kentucky have petitioned Congress to assent , " & c . 1 U. S. St. at L. 189 ; 2 B. & D. 191. No constitution for the State had as ...
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... passed since 1783 on the subject . This has been , with many amendments , the leading statute . Supplemental are 1804-5 , c . 90 ; 1805 , c . 66 , c . 80 ; 1806-7 , 81 ; 1807 , c . 164 . 1801 , c . 109. Slaves are allowed to give ...
... passed since 1783 on the subject . This has been , with many amendments , the leading statute . Supplemental are 1804-5 , c . 90 ; 1805 , c . 66 , c . 80 ; 1806-7 , 81 ; 1807 , c . 164 . 1801 , c . 109. Slaves are allowed to give ...
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Page 242 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 205 - Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 116 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Page 119 - 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.
Page 265 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 264 - And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.
Page 264 - I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government.
Page 184 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 118 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 55 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.