 | Edmund Burke - History - 1837 - 904 pages
...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... | |
 | James Turner Morehead - Kentucky - 1840 - 192 pages
...necessary guards against legislative encroachment. The General Assembly, therefore, were deprived of the "power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money."... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...be relieved or discharged on account of such securityship. ARTICLE 7. Concerning Slaves. SEC. 1. The general Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation , a full equivalent in... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...first session thereof, fix permanently the seat of government. ARTICLE XVI. General Provisions. 1. The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves. 2. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this state from bringing with them such persons... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...be relieved or discharged on account of such securityship. ARTICLE 7. Concerning Slavet. SEC. 1. The general Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 98 pages
...three-fifths of all other persons." &c. CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY. ARTICLE?, CONCERNING SLAVES, $ 1.— "The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent ofiheir owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1859 - 796 pages
...that slaves can become free persons, if their owners desire to keep them slaves. " The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of each of their respective owners, previous to such emancipation." Art. 4, Sec. 9, Cons. Ga. It is true,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...effect until the same shall be sanctioned by two-thirds of both houses of the general assembly.(a) The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...fairly within the power of change. The Kentucky Constitution, article II, section 1, thus reads: "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money... | |
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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... 
