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 Object of the
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Of the distinction between persons and things 22 Relations consist of rights and obligations 23 Rights of persons and rights of things distinguished 24...
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Law applies to territory and to persons
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National and international law are thus differently applied Origin of
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Natural reason acknowledged in positive law
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Of legislation and the judicial function
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Of the authority of judicial precedents
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Of customary law
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Of the authority of private jurists
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Of the authority of foreign laws
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Of the authority of universal jurisprudence
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Unwritten or customary law a part of positive law
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In what manner international law is derived
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Of individual and relative rights
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Of liberty as an effect of law
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The legal and the ethical idea and objective and subjective apprehen
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The first portion described a law in the secondary sense
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The law has different extent to different persons
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Private persons are distinguished by axiomatic principles of universal
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Statement of the third maxim
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The tribunal must ascertain the will of the state in the case
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Though disallowed in the forum its incidental effects in the foreign
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Practical effect of the ordinary doctrine of judicial comity
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The effect of foreign laws limited by laws having universal personal
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authority of some national law
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Of legislation as limiting the judicial application of elementary prin
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Personality or legal capacity a necessary topic of private interna
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Conditions supported by universal jurisprudence become conditions
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On a change of sovereigns the territorial law of a country con
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Of political authority in America derived from the compacts of
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sion of liberty
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Civil and political liberty liberty by public and by private law
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The right of property under this personal law existed only in refer
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL LAW IN THE COLONIESTHE SUBJECT
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Of universal jurisprudence affecting personal condition forming
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Of the jus publicum in the Roman law
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The Romans held slavery arising from captivity to be based
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Changes occurring in international law are not simultaneous among
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Chattel slavery of infidels and heathens supported by universal
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Why the common law of every state must exhibit its own recep
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The condition of a negro brought to England determined either
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Case of Chamberlayne v Harvey
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Lord Mansfields decision in Somersets case
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Necessity of recurring to principles of universal jurisprudence
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Power of the imperial government to determine the condition
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Extension of the English law of free condition to colonists of other
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Public and private character of the law determining the condition
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ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL LAW IN THE COLONIES THE SUBJECT CON
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Effect of a conversion to Christianity upon slavecondition how
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Inquiry into this why postponed
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Rhode Island
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New Jersey
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North Carolina
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Effect of former international recognitions of slavery
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Reasons against admitting their universal extent in Massachusetts
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Its extent so determined in Massachusetts and the British Islands
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Georgia
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Whether negro slavery had before that case been lawful
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Opinion of Gudelin on this point
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The condition of the last whether bond or free determined by
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International effect of common law as a law personal to the
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second chapter
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Of the deficiency of legislative enactments on this topic
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Authorities on the law of the Netherlands
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Quality of political liberty variable according to its distribution
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negro race
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Slavery therefore not supported by universal jurisprudence
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Supremacy of the national judiciary in determining the law con
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Argument that in this connection the term means any free person
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The Territories of the United States are under the jurisdiction
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The word people in the constitutions designates only a portion
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This international law is determined by the different sources of
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Powers of the States in respect to naturalization of domestic aliens 451
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Change in the location of sovereign power which occurred in
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Statement of the theory of the location of sovereignty under
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National municipal law to be considered as affecting individual
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Of limitations on the powers reserved to the States
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CONDITIONS OF FREEDOM AND BONDAGE CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE
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Relation of the Constitution of the United States to the condition
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Common law in the Territories is a local law
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OF THE DISTRIBUTION OR CLASSIFICATION OF PRIVATE LAW AFFECTING
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nicipal law
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Of powers whose nature may vary by their investiture in the
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Of the territorial limits of the States
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Of that international law which is derived from the several jurid
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The laws of the several States have no territorial extent beyond
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Question of a limitation of the residuary power held by the people
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Continuation of the customary distinction of two systems of per
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International law in the Territories regarded as jurisdictions having
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Opinion of the Court delivered by Chief Justice Taney
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Mr Justice Curtis opinion
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Fallacy in the doctrine that in the Constitution slaves are referred
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The political people of the States identified with the people of
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No such effect has been judicially ascribed to such national decla
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The question of the lawfulness of slavery in the Territories is one of international private law
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Ambiguous use of the term positive law
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Use of terms by Justice Holroyd in an English case and by Chief Justice Shaw
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Illustrated by Chief Justice Shaw in Commonwealth v Aves
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Illustrated in an extract from Senator Benjamins speech
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The guarantee of private property as extending to rights in respect
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Of Lord Stowell and Judge Story as cited by Senator Benjamin Theories of the power of the national Government in the Territories
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The three functions of sovereignty are necessarily combined in the manifestation of juridical power
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Conditions of the exercise of executive and judicial power in the Territories
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Inconsistency in denying the legislative power in Congress
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The idea that the national Government may remain neutral in
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spect to slavery
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Necessity of a customary standard of property
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Which was part of the American law having national extent
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Of the further exposition of the local municipal
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The condition of slavery an effect of the local law of a colony
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Distinction of State laws as having universal personal extent 539 Limitation of the view hereafter to be taken of liberty and slavery
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第 370 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 430 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 115 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 477 頁 - ... there is a difference between property in a slave and other property, and that different rules may be applied to it in expounding the Constitution of the United States. And the laws and usages of nations, and the writings of eminent jurists upon the relation of master and slave and their mutual rights and duties, and the powers which Governments may exercise ove'r it, have been dwelt upon in the argument. But in considering the question before us, it must be borne in mind that there is no law...
第 470 頁 - The purposes for which men enter into society will determine the nature and terms of the social compact; and as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of it. The nature, and ends of legislative power will limit the exercise of it.
第 116 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 254 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 496 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.
第 466 頁 - 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. Wherefore as any man's deed past is good as long as himself continueth ; so the act of a -public society of men done five hundred years sithence standeth as theirs who presently are of the same societies, because corporations are immortal ; we were then alive in our predecessors* and they in their successors do live still.
第 244 頁 - It is also agreed that the commissioners for this confederation hereafter at their meetings, whether ordinary or extraordinary, as they may have commission or opportunity, do endeavor to frame and establish agreements and orders in general cases of a civil nature...

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