The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, 第 1 卷

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Little, Brown, 1858
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Insufficiency of Blackstones definition of municipal law
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Who may ascertain the law of nature for the state
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Positive law and jurisprudence defined
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Comprehensiveness of the term jurisprudence
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General or universal jurisprudence defined
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Use of the term law of nations
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Of the distinction between persons and things
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Relations consist of rights and obligations
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Rights of persons and rights of things distinguished
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The Romans held slavery arising from captivity to be based
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Of the exercise of judicial power by the national Government
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Possibility of a maxim of international law which shall be a rule
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The first portion described a law in the secondary sense
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Difference in the power of any one state to determine one or
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The law has different extent to different persons
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Subjects and objects of rights
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Under which class of relations are those of which status or condition
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True reason of the rule called comity
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Though disallowed slavery is not supposed to be contrary to justice
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Judicial comity is in fact customary law
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Laws of different origin but similar in effect
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Judicial allowance of effects ascribed to universal jurisprudence
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These principles may operate as internal law as well as interna
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Laws of universal personal extent discriminated by judicial action
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But universal jurisprudence has not authority independently of
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Though disallowed in the forum its incidental effects in the foreign
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Of legislation as limiting the judicial application of elementary prin
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CHAPTER III
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On a change of sovereigns the territorial law of a country con
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The question might be differently answered at different times dur
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The entire body of common law was not as a personal law trans
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colonists
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The relation of master and servant under the law so transferred
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Of the Roman law as an exposition of universal jurisprudence
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Personality or legal capacity a necessary topic of private interna
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By this modification slavery was no longer attributable to univer
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tions of Europe
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Relations incident to status are internationally recognized when
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Inference that property in negro slaves was recognized by the
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Case of Gelly v Cleve
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How far conditions of freedom or of bondage can be attributed
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Attempted statement of the legal distinction in these cases
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TO WHOM THE LAW OF ENGLAND DID NOT EXTEND AS A PERSONAL
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Principles of a universal jurisprudence may be applied to a partic
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Necessity of recurring to principles of universal jurisprudence
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Term colonists in the charters how to be understood
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National law affecting the subject distinguished from local law
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Of the Roman law of manumission
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Legal incidents of the condition of such persons
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Public and private character of the law determining the condition
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Effect of a conversion to Christianity upon slavecondition how
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Why universal jurisprudence must be taken as determining prop
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Of the common law having personal extent as a political guaran
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National and international law are thus differently applied 23
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Opinion of Gudelin on this point
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alien of African or Indian race
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International effect of common law as a law personal to the
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How far as part of English common law it had sustained slavery
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But not known as effect of universal jurisprudence when rejected
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The recognition of chattel slavery under comity limited by universal
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How a natural law is distinguishable in this connection
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Nor sustained by the law having a national and personal extent
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CHAPTER VII
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The nature of the inconsistency further explained
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International law based on the possession of sovereign power by dis
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Necessary variety in the personal extent of law
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Connection of the subject with axioms already stated
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This international law is determined by the different sources of
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Bondage of indentured white servants partially sustained by
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Powers of the States in respect to naturalization of domestic aliens
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The law applying to such persons is properly described as interna
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Reasons for not first distinguishing those laws as either national
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CHAPTER XII
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Liberty as secured by the Constitution is definable only by refer
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Of the manner in which personal condition may depend on public
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Public and private law distinguished
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one state
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Distribution of power to modify the effects of common law includ
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Common law in the Territories is a local law
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Statement of the theory of the location of sovereignty under
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Argument that in this connection the term means any free person
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Inconsistencies in that opinion
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Connection of private condition with the question of judicial juris
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The distribution of power over status is not the same as during
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A principle of universal law supporting the jurisdiction in all cases 496
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Private persons are distinguished by axiomatic principles of universal
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Distinction of the early State Governments as restricted or not
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Law is in extent either territorial or personal
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Constitutional provisions for the investiture of the judicial power
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Of the doctrine as a political principle
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Of the character of the Constitution as a bill of rights
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Judicial power and ancillary ministerial power how distinguishable
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The doctrine of property in slaves as set forth in Chief Justice
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tion
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Civil and political liberty liberty by public and by private law
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Supposed sanction for legislation reducing free blacks to slavery
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Opinions of Justices Wayne and Grier
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The laws of the several States have no territorial extent beyond
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Of the territorial limits of the States
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Their possession of sovereignty is a fact above the national Con
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That slavery rests on national common law is implied in Chief
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Slavery therefore not supported by universal jurisprudence
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Origin of
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Illustrated in an extract from Senator Benjamins speech
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Natural reason acknowledged in positive law 29 Of legislation and the judicial function 30 Of the authority of judicial precedents 31 Of customary law
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The three functions of sovereignty are necessarily combined in
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Variance of Judge Campbells theory with the local character
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Of the authority of private jurists 33 Of the authority of foreign laws 34 Of the authority of universal jurisprudence 35 Unwritten or customary law a ...
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Effect of law 40 Of individual and relative rights 41 Of liberty as an effect of law 33888 36 37
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The legal and the ethical idea and objective and subjective apprehen sion of liberty
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A distinction among the relations recognized in international law
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Sovereignty how distributed between the national Government
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第 207 頁 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order; and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
第 390 頁 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
第 508 頁 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
第 127 頁 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere is intrusted by the Constitution of these kingdoms.
第 456 頁 - The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and if they were used in a similar instrument at this day would be so understood. But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this Declaration...
第 128 頁 - law itself, (says he,) [*91] you at the same time repeal the prohibitory clause, which guards against such repeal ( />)." 10. Lastly, acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity : and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void (32).
第 228 頁 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
第 280 頁 - That the laws made by them for the purposes aforesaid shall not be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and shall be transmitted to the King in Council for approbation, as soon as may be after their passing; and if not disapproved within three years after presentation, to remain in force...
第 498 頁 - Of this point therefore we are to note, that sith men naturally have no full and perfect power to command whole politic multitudes of men ; therefore, utterly without our consent, we could in such sort be at no man's commandment living. And to be commanded we do consent, when that Society whereof we are part, hath at any time before consented, without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement.
第 532 頁 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.

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