 | Gerald T. Dunne - Law - 1993 - 250 pages
...constitution by the drafting committee. The passage came before the convention on June 30, 1820: "The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws, . . . For the emancipation of slaves. ... It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary ... To prevent... | |
 | Willard Carl Klunder - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 478 pages
...the rights of slaveholders to be "inviolable," the Lecompton constitution stated: "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners. "The Fugitive Slave Law was to be rigidly enforced and free blacks excluded from the state. The institution... | |
 | Ezekiel Birdseye, Durwood Dunn - Abolitionists - 1997 - 328 pages
...and capacity, despite its ultimate defeat.21 The final vote, on July 30, on the provision that "the General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owner or owners," passed by a surprisingly narrow margin, 30 to 27. Fourteen of the dissenters... | |
 | Bobby L. Lovett - African Americans - 1999 - 340 pages
...sixteen counties. However, the constitutional convention proposed in Article II, Section 3 that "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owner or owners." Yet the new constitution's declaration of rights said that "the doctrine of... | |
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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... 
