The Power of Congress Over the District of ColumbiaJohn F. Trow, printer., 1838 - 56 Seiten |
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... which any legislature has within its own jurisdiction , Congress holds over the District of Colum- bia . It has been objected that the clause in question respects merely police regulations , and that its sole design was to ...
... which any legislature has within its own jurisdiction , Congress holds over the District of Colum- bia . It has been objected that the clause in question respects merely police regulations , and that its sole design was to ...
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... hold himself by his original title ? 3. The abolition of slavery has always been considered within the ap- propriate sphere of legislation . Almost every civilized nation has abol- ished slavery by law . The history of legislation since ...
... hold himself by his original title ? 3. The abolition of slavery has always been considered within the ap- propriate sphere of legislation . Almost every civilized nation has abol- ished slavery by law . The history of legislation since ...
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... hold property , and ' prosecute suits in their own name as plaintiffs : [ This last was also the law of Virginia in 1795. See Tucker's " Dissertation on Slavery , " p . 73. ] There were also laws making marriage contracts legal , in ...
... hold property , and ' prosecute suits in their own name as plaintiffs : [ This last was also the law of Virginia in 1795. See Tucker's " Dissertation on Slavery , " p . 73. ] There were also laws making marriage contracts legal , in ...
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... holds the following language in the September No. 1833 , p . 55 : " Under this exclusive jurisdiction , ' granted by the constitution , Congress has power to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Colum- bia . It would ...
... holds the following language in the September No. 1833 , p . 55 : " Under this exclusive jurisdiction , ' granted by the constitution , Congress has power to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Colum- bia . It would ...
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... hold it , only by popular suf- ferance ? Must it lie helpless at the pool of public sentiment , waiting the gracious troubling of its waters ? Is it a lifeless corpse , save only when popular " consent " deigns to puff breath into its ...
... hold it , only by popular suf- ferance ? Must it lie helpless at the pool of public sentiment , waiting the gracious troubling of its waters ? Is it a lifeless corpse , save only when popular " consent " deigns to puff breath into its ...
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The Power of Congress Over the District of Columbia Theodore Dwight Weld Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Seite 43 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 28 - We will neither import nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Seite 14 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 23 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, us well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the Government of the United States.
Seite 56 - Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties.
Seite 10 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Seite 17 - That Congress possesses no constitutional authority to interfere in any way with the institution of slavery in any of the States of this Confederacy. Resolved, That Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia.
Seite 29 - These have sucked in the principles of liberty, as it were, with their mother's milk ; and it is to them I look with anxiety to turn the fate of this question. Be not therefore discouraged. What you have written will do a great deal of good : and could you still trouble yourself with our welfare, no man is more able to give aid to the laboring side.
Seite 34 - I conceive the Constitution in this particular was formed in order that the Government, whilst it was restrained from laying a total prohibition, might be able to give some testimony of the sense of America, with respect to the African trade.
Seite 29 - Britain, no effectual legal relief could be obtained. Weaned by a long course of experience from those narrow prejudices and partialities we had imbibed, we find our hearts enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards men of all conditions and nations ; and we conceive ourselves at this particular period extraordinarily called upon by the blessings which we have received, to manifest the sincerity of our profession, and to give a substantial proof of our gratitude.