 The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.  Great American Legislators: Source Extracts - Page 148by Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arkansas. Office of the Secretary of State - Arkansas - 1898 - 312 pages
...law of the land ; nor shall any person, under any circumstances, be exiled from the state. SEC. 22. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated or damaged cfor public use, without just compensation... | |
 | Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - Missouri compromise - 1899 - 654 pages
...— not abstractedly, but in 1 Debates Kentucky Convention, p. 130. * " ARTICLE EIGHTH. " Section 20. The right of property is before and higher than any...sanction ; and the right of the owner of a slave to such a slave, and its increase, is the same, and as inviolable, as the right of the owner ot any property... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - Statesmen - 1900 - 578 pages
...whole constitution to the people now changed their course. The constitution was made to declare : " The right of property is before and higher than any...increase is the same, and as inviolable, as the right of any property whatever." This was designed to put slavery out of the reach of any law less than a constitutional... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1900 - 758 pages
...So also Texas, where such a provision is certainly not superfluous. 1 Until 1801, Kentucky added, " The right of property is before and higher than any...to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolahle as the right of the owner of any property whatever," although this doctrine had been annulled,... | |
 | Lewis Rhoton, William J. Galbraith - Arkansas - 1900 - 314 pages
...under any circumstances, be exiled from the state. Private property taken for public use. Sec. 22. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated, or damaged for public use, without just compensation... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 724 pages
...the constitution of an American Commonwealth. "The. right of property," declared the seventh article, "is before and higher than any constitutional sanction,...the right of the owner of any property whatever." This declaration, also, was destined never again to be incorporated into an American constitution.... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 862 pages
...the constitution of an American Commonwealth. "The right of property," declared the seventh article, "is before and higher than any constitutional sanction,...the right of the owner of any property whatever." This declaration, also, was destined never again to be incorporated into an American constitution.... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...it? "'Art. 7. Sec. 1. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional an action; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave...the right of the owner of any property whatever.' " Then, in the schedule is a provision that the constitution may bo amended after 1804 by a two-thirds... | |
 | Thomas B. Martin - Equity - 1901 - 660 pages
...the land."13 Again, our Bill-of-Rights, Article IT, Section 23 of the Constitution, declares that, "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated, or (13.) Constitution of Arkansas, Art. II, $ 21.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1300 pages
...his peers, or the law of the land.' Again, our bill of rights (article 2, § 22, Const) declares that 'the right of property Is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated, or damaged for public use, without just compensation... | |
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