Can Abolitionists Vote Or Take Office Under the United States Constitution
The book Can Abolitionists Vote Or Take Office Under the United States Constitution was written by author Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 Here you can read free online of Can Abolitionists Vote Or Take Office Under the United States Constitution book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Can Abolitionists Vote Or Take Office Under the United States Constitution a good or bad book?
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This would be extremely j)rcjudicial to the inhabitants of the Southern States, and to prevent it, this clause is inserted in the Constitution. Though the word slave be not mentioned, this is the mean- ing of it. The Northern delegates, owing to their particular scruples on the subject of slavery, did not choose the word slave to be mentioned. But even if two clauses are immoral that is enougli for our pur- pose, and shews that no honest man should engage to uphold them. Wiio has the right to c...onstrue and expound the laws. '^ Of course the Courts of the Nation. The Constitution provides (Article 3, Section 2, ) tiiat the Supreme Court shall be the final and only interpreter of its meaning. What says the Supreme Court. '* That this clause does relate to slaves, and order their return. All the other courts concur in this opinion. But, say some, the courts are corrupt on this question. Let us appeal to the people. Nine hundred and ninty-nine out of every thousand answer, that the courts have construed it rightly, and almost as many cheerfully support it.
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