Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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Page 82
... answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law so long as the question of its legality is to be decided by the State itself ; for every law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be perhaps thought , and certainly ...
... answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law so long as the question of its legality is to be decided by the State itself ; for every law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be perhaps thought , and certainly ...
Page 83
... answer as will preserve the Union . Metaphysical subtlety , in pursuit of an impracticable theory , could alone have devised one that is calculated to destroy it . " The Constitution declares that the judicial powers of the United ...
... answer as will preserve the Union . Metaphysical subtlety , in pursuit of an impracticable theory , could alone have devised one that is calculated to destroy it . " The Constitution declares that the judicial powers of the United ...
Page 86
... answer the question ; and let them choose whether they will be considered as incapable , then , of perceiving that which must have been apparent to every man of common understanding , or as imposing upon your confi- dence and ...
... answer the question ; and let them choose whether they will be considered as incapable , then , of perceiving that which must have been apparent to every man of common understanding , or as imposing upon your confi- dence and ...
Page 124
... answer whether he stands pledged to - day , as he did in 1854 , against the admission of any more slave States into the Union , even if the people want them . I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State ...
... answer whether he stands pledged to - day , as he did in 1854 , against the admission of any more slave States into the Union , even if the people want them . I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State ...
Page 129
... its stringency , be more likely to carry a free man into sla- very than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one . " ' Judge Douglas has got my answer on the Fugitive Slave V - 9 LINCOLN - DOUGLAS DEBATES 129.
... its stringency , be more likely to carry a free man into sla- very than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one . " ' Judge Douglas has got my answer on the Fugitive Slave V - 9 LINCOLN - DOUGLAS DEBATES 129.
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