 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...approved and signed the bill; thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government, to control as to slavery in federal territory. Democrats "delight to... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1867 - 298 pages
...King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor any thing in the Constitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting...mentioned are the only acts of the ' thirtynine,' or of any of them, upon the direct issue, which I have been able to discover. " To enumerate the persons... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1862 - 506 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...approved and signed the bill; thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government, to control as to slaven,' in federal territory. No great while after... | |
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... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine... 
