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The case concerned the question of whether a slave was freed if taken to a territory from which slavery had been excluded by ... since federal law could not interfere with property rights - that is , with slavery - in the territories .
The case concerned the question of whether a slave was freed if taken to a territory from which slavery had been excluded by ... since federal law could not interfere with property rights - that is , with slavery - in the territories .
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It does not propose to legislate slavery into the Territories , nor out of the Territories . It does not propose to establish institutions for the people , nor to deprive them of the right of determining for themselves what kind of ...
It does not propose to legislate slavery into the Territories , nor out of the Territories . It does not propose to establish institutions for the people , nor to deprive them of the right of determining for themselves what kind of ...
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southern men deny the constitutional power of Congress to " establish slavery in the Territories ? " Yet in the teeth of this undeniable fact , which is well known to every man , woman , and child who has ever read a newspaper ...
southern men deny the constitutional power of Congress to " establish slavery in the Territories ? " Yet in the teeth of this undeniable fact , which is well known to every man , woman , and child who has ever read a newspaper ...
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
HAMILTON AND THE FEDERALISTS | 12 |
Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris April 15 1781 | 21 |
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