The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Band 1Little, Brown, 1858 |
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... tion by which political or moral ends are to be attained . In the belief that this tendency arises principally from a want of precision in the definitions of law and in the formulas which express the basal propositions of jurisprudence ...
... tion by which political or moral ends are to be attained . In the belief that this tendency arises principally from a want of precision in the definitions of law and in the formulas which express the basal propositions of jurisprudence ...
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... tion of his own observations on one of the most important sub- jects of constitutional law . No one can be more sensible that , in proportion to the interest of the inquiry and the deficiency of the ordinary means of attaining juridical ...
... tion of his own observations on one of the most important sub- jects of constitutional law . No one can be more sensible that , in proportion to the interest of the inquiry and the deficiency of the ordinary means of attaining juridical ...
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... tion to particular persons . Laws in establishing relations among men , necessarily establish differences between them as the sub- jects or objects of the rights and obligations composing those relations , and persons under any system ...
... tion to particular persons . Laws in establishing relations among men , necessarily establish differences between them as the sub- jects or objects of the rights and obligations composing those relations , and persons under any system ...
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... tion is not inquired into , it is simply law . " A custom cannot be alleged generally within the kingdom of England ; for that is common law . " Co. Lit. fo . , 110 b . , and fo . 115 b . Sir Henry Finch , Tr . , p . 77. Only particular ...
... tion is not inquired into , it is simply law . " A custom cannot be alleged generally within the kingdom of England ; for that is common law . " Co. Lit. fo . , 110 b . , and fo . 115 b . Sir Henry Finch , Tr . , p . 77. Only particular ...
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... tion or judicial interpretation of natural law does not afford sufficient guidance . ' § 34. And when any principles or rules of action have been so long and so generally recognized among many nations that they have been historically ...
... tion or judicial interpretation of natural law does not afford sufficient guidance . ' § 34. And when any principles or rules of action have been so long and so generally recognized among many nations that they have been historically ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 533 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...