POLI2327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Color Terminology For Race, Fugitive Slave Laws, Fugitive Slave Clause
1 Apr 2014
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Abolitionists didn"t care how bad they looked only cared about moral principle. Not clear that congress has authority to do this: article 4 away from enumerated powers in article 1, with rise of abolitionism, states banned self-help or slave catchers and passed personal. Liberty laws: if there is a slave that you are alleging that has run away, you have to apply to a state government and have a hearing can"t just grab someone off the street and take them away. Has to be a legal judgment: case of matilda v. chase. Caused when the slave escapes to pa and slave owner goes to pa and catches slave to bring her back south: slave owner is arrested for kidnapping. Showing distrust between fugitive slave acts and personal liberty laws. Said that the fugitive slave clause was self-executing . Idea that the treaty itself in enforceable as law doesn"t need congressional implementing legislation: fugitive slave acts = the implementing law.
