Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott Versus John F.A. Sandford: December Term, 1856C. Wendell, printer, 1857 - 239 Seiten |
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... meaning when it was adopted . In discussing this question , we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a State may confer within its own limits , and the rights of citizenship as a member of the Union . It does not by any ...
... meaning when it was adopted . In discussing this question , we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a State may confer within its own limits , and the rights of citizenship as a member of the Union . It does not by any ...
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... meaning of the Constitution of the United States , and , consequently , was not entitled to sue in its courts . It is true , every person , and every class and description of persons , who were at the time of the adoption of the ...
... meaning of the Constitution of the United States , and , consequently , was not entitled to sue in its courts . It is true , every person , and every class and description of persons , who were at the time of the adoption of the ...
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... meaning of the language they used , and how it would be un- derstood by others ; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race , which , by common consent , had been excluded ...
... meaning of the language they used , and how it would be un- derstood by others ; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race , which , by common consent , had been excluded ...
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... meaning of the Constitution of the United States ; and the correctness of this decision is recognised , and the same doctrine affirmed , in 1 Meigs's Tenn . Reports , 331 . And if we turn to the legislation of the States where slavery ...
... meaning of the Constitution of the United States ; and the correctness of this decision is recognised , and the same doctrine affirmed , in 1 Meigs's Tenn . Reports , 331 . And if we turn to the legislation of the States where slavery ...
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... meaning of the word citizen in the Constitution of the United States , and were not therefore entitled to the privileges and immuni- ties of citizens in other States . The case was carried up to the Supreme Court of Errors of the State ...
... meaning of the word citizen in the Constitution of the United States , and were not therefore entitled to the privileges and immuni- ties of citizens in other States . The case was carried up to the Supreme Court of Errors of the State ...
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REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE United States Supreme Court,Dred Plaintiff in Error Scott,John F. a. 1806 or 7-1857 Defe Sanford Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 199 - 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.
Seite 181 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Seite 11 - On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.
Seite 49 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Seite 130 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Seite 51 - The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Seite 107 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Seite 108 - 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...
Seite 152 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Seite 142 - Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.