 The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated.  Commentaries on American Law - Page 285by James Kent - 1866Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...provision. Article seven, section two, provides: '• The Legislature shall have no power to pa,«.s laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without pay I iic ihe owners, previous to Iheir emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 650 pages
...so much thereof as prohibits the R. OF H. ] Michigan and Arkansas. [Jess 9, 1836. General Assembly from passing laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners; and shall also provide in and by said constitution that no negro or mulatto, born in or brought into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 904 pages
...enacted a new state constitution. By one of the provisions the legislature was denied the power of passing laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or of preventing emigrants from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 880 pages
...enacted a new state constitution. By one of the provisions the legislature was denied the power of passing laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or of preventing emigrants from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 pages
...industry, and morality. Emancipation of Slaves. SEC. 1. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of the owners. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this State from bringing with them such persons as... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the following restrictions upon legislative power: The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of the owners. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this state from bringing with them such persons as... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 pages
...Massachusetts, protested against the admission of Arkansas with the clause in her constitution prohibiting the legislature from passing laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners. He concurred with his constituents in condemning the clause " as anti-republican, as wrong on general... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...industry, and morality. Emancipation of Slaves. § 1. The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of the owners. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this state from bringing with them such persons as... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 440 pages
...accepted the challenge, and named as her rider, - The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners.' Thus mounted, these two States, the one free and the other slave, started together twenty years ago,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...accepted the challenge, and named as her rider, ' The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners.' Thus mounted, these two States, the one free and the other slave, started together twenty years ago,... | |
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