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Commentaries on American Law - Page 287
by James Kent - 1858
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The History of the Antislavery Cause in State and Nation

Austin Willey - Social Science - 1886 - 596 pages
...the other a slave state. The constitution of Arkansas provided that the legislature should have no power to pass laws for the .emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or prevent bringing slaves into the state. The two bills yoked together like Maine and Missouri, passed...
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Utah

1886 - 324 pages
...contained the following provisions : SEC. 26. The General Assembly shall not have power to pass laws — I. For the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners ; or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves soemancipated, and,...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846 ...

Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1888 - 740 pages
...entirely to the provision of the constitution proposed by Arkansas : " The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners." Adams moved an amendment to the bill of admission, which recited that nothing contained in that bill...
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The Achievements of Four Centuries: Or, The Wonderful Story of Our ..., Volume 2

Benson John Lossing - America - 1890 - 560 pages
...of Senators. On the subject of slavery the Constitution provided that the Legislature should have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, nor without paying therefor, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money;...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 23

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1890 - 666 pages
...indeed, so progressive that it deserves to be quoted in full. "Article IX. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners previous to such emancipation, and a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated....
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1856-1859 ...

Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...is the same and as inviolable as the right of any property whatever. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without p1u'ing the owners, previous to their emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the slaves...
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American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a ...

Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. SEC. 2. The legislature shall have no Thomas Valentine Cooper( without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves...
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The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of ..., Volume 3

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Slave trade - 1896 - 360 pages
...from Africa, or any foreign place, after the first day of October next. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of each of their respective owners previous to such emancipation. They shall have no power to prevent...
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The Code of Alabama: Adopted by Act of the General Assembly ... Approved ...

Alabama - Law - 1897 - 598 pages
...agree, subject, nevertheless, to the preceding rules. SLAVES. §1. The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money...
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East Tennessee and the Civil War

Oliver Perry Temple - History - 1899 - 630 pages
...for slavery, the following clause was put into the constitution : "The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owner or owners." Thus the delusive hope and promise held out by the committee, speaking for...
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