Historical and Legal Examination: Of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case; Which Declares the ... of the Constitution to Territori - Hardcover

Benton, Thomas Hart

9780332891484: Historical and Legal Examination: Of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case; Which Declares the ... of the Constitution to Territori

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Excerpt from Historical and Legal Examination: Of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case; Which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the Self-Extension of the Constitution to Territories, Carrying Slavery Along With It

Government bill, extending certain enumerated acts of Congress to the territories - such acts as Congress thinks proper to extend -no act of Congress obtaining force in a territory, unless ex pressly spread over it. Mr. Walker's bill conformed to this practice. It contained the usual list of acts which were suitable to territories for the list is nearly always the same.

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