POL 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fugitive Slave Clause, Fugitive Slaves In The United States, Direct Democracy

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 313
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Federation: when have two or more levels of government sharing the same power for responsibility for same areas. State governments don"t belong to national level of government, gets power from the people of the state. National government gets power to govern from the people of the us: doesn"t belong to the states. Some states did not recognize same sex marriages for a while. Supreme court said it was a violation of the 15th amendment. Fugitive slave clause: fugitive slave law, federal court would determine if person is a slave, commissions were paid for every slave they sent back and if they didn"t. When dealing with fugitive slave part, doesn"t say the congress specifically enforces that. There were a lot of presidents/judges from slave states. Territories that belonged to the united states. Colonists became to have control of this territory. Excited to control the land given to them in the treaty of paris by england.