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" State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States... "
Commentaries on American Law - Page 283
by James Kent - 1866
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...A History of Alabama, for Use in Schools: Based as to Its Earlier Parts ...

William Garrott Brown - 1900 - 402 pages
...Among the provisions of the Constitution were certain clauses about slaves. The Assembly was forbidden to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their masters, or to prevent immigrants from bringing their slaves into the State. It was declared...
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Steps in the Expansion of Our Territory

Oscar Phelps Austin - 1903 - 288 pages
...instrument, when adopted, contained a clause providing that the Legislature of the State should have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, nor without paying the owners full value for them, and that no law should be passed preventing immigrants...
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History of Tennessee: Its People and Its Institutions from the Earliest ...

William Robertson Garrett, Albert Virgil Goodpasture - 1903 - 370 pages
...34, the Const, of 1834, Art. II, Sec. 31, provides as follows: "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owner or owners."] ARTICLE II.— DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS. SECTION i. The powers of the Government...
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The Louisiana Purchase and the Westward Movement, Volume 8

Curtis Manning Geer - 1904 - 646 pages
...slavery, which passed by a vote of twenty-six to sixteen, was as follows: " 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 Life of Thomas Hart Benton

William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 558 pages
...from the field of politics in Missouri, the chief of which was that the Legislature should " not have power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners; or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so...
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The Life of Thomas Hart Benton

William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 554 pages
...from the field of politics in Missouri, the chief of which was that the Legislature should " not have power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners; or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so...
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The Life of Thomas Hart Benton

William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 554 pages
...from the field of politics in Missouri, the chief of which was that the Legislature should " not have power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners; or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so...
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Studies in the Constitutional History of Tennessee

Joshua William Caldwell - 1907 - 432 pages
...Willie Blount submitted a resolution providing that the Legislature should have no power or authority to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, and without paying tothe owners previous to such emancipation a full equivalent: and...
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Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1898, Volume 10

William MacDonald - 1908 - 654 pages
...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. SEC. 2. 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...
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A Source History of the United States: From Discovery (1492) to End of ...

Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 pages
...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. Sec. 2. 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 ... for the slaves so emancipated." 13 c. Kansas Question in Congress: Toombs...
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