The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, المجلد 1Little, Brown, 1858 |
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الصفحة viii
... opinion , or could not , at least , so lately as the year 1837 , might be believed from the strong ex- pressions used by the late Judge Baldwin of the Supreme Court of the United States , in his General View of the Origin and Nature of ...
... opinion , or could not , at least , so lately as the year 1837 , might be believed from the strong ex- pressions used by the late Judge Baldwin of the Supreme Court of the United States , in his General View of the Origin and Nature of ...
الصفحة ix
... opinion , as it was immediately after its adoption . If one is to judge of the next , by the results of the past half century , there is but a slight assurance that that instrument will be better understood at the expiration , than it ...
... opinion , as it was immediately after its adoption . If one is to judge of the next , by the results of the past half century , there is but a slight assurance that that instrument will be better understood at the expiration , than it ...
الصفحة xii
... and which was his own opinion , he ob- served , " These considerations , however , have utterly failed to settle the true meaning of the term , ' We , the people of the sup- PREFACE . xiii United States , ' as the granting xii PREFACE .
... and which was his own opinion , he ob- served , " These considerations , however , have utterly failed to settle the true meaning of the term , ' We , the people of the sup- PREFACE . xiii United States , ' as the granting xii PREFACE .
الصفحة xiii
... opinion . " The question , Who makes the law of the land I live in ? is one which each private person , required to yield obedience in the name of the law , is always supposed to be able to answer for himself , independently of judicial ...
... opinion . " The question , Who makes the law of the land I live in ? is one which each private person , required to yield obedience in the name of the law , is always supposed to be able to answer for himself , independently of judicial ...
الصفحة xxx
... Opinion of Gudelin on this point , 319. Position of slave , in the modern case , like that of manumitted slaves , • 320. If he had before been a chattel slave he must have acquired person- ality and domicil , • 321. How possibly ...
... Opinion of Gudelin on this point , 319. Position of slave , in the modern case , like that of manumitted slaves , • 320. If he had before been a chattel slave he must have acquired person- ality and domicil , • 321. How possibly ...
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الصفحة 210 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
الصفحة 249 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
الصفحة 120 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law, as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance, and of protection from personal injuries.
الصفحة 566 - That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States...
الصفحة 533 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
الصفحة 130 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere is intrusted by the Constitution of these kingdoms.
الصفحة 409 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
الصفحة 466 - The territory being a part of the United States, the government and the citizen both enter it under the authority of the Constitution, with their respective rights defined and marked out ; and the federal government can exercise no power over his person or property, beyond what that instrument confers, nor lawfully deny any right which it has reserved.
الصفحة 475 - But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this Declaration...
الصفحة 566 - Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, excepting only such part thereof as is included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited...