Slavery, natural law, and positive law

Magna Carta 1215 - Fordham sourcebook

 Somerset v. Stewart (1772) Speech of Lord Mansfield at p. 510

Hargrave An Argument for the Slave

Gouverneur Morris re slavery at Federal Convention 1787

  Beverly Tomek, review of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha(review no. 1991)

Massachusetts Body of Liberties - 1641

 

John Marshall’s pro-slavery jurisprudence

Paul Finkelman

U Chicago L Rev online

Part I

Part II

Supreme Injustice - Paul Finkelman - Review in Pittsburgh Post Gazette 

Review: Failed Attempt to cut Marshall and Story Down to Size

by Paul Moreno

 Sold (historical document)

John Marshall owes $2,000, pays debt with slaves

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) Joseph Story - for the court.  Somerset's case necessitated express provision for the right of property in slaves. Without Fugitive Slave clauses every state would be free to declare slaves within their territory to be free, without which compromise the union could not ahve been formed.

Johnson & Graham's Lessee v. McIntosh (1823) U.S. inherited sovereignty from King of England, Native American Tribes have only right of occupancy, not title

THE SUPREME COURT AND CONGRESS'S POWER TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: AN OVERLOOKED MORAL ANOMALY

By Robert J. Kaczorowski 73 Fordham L. Rev. 153 (2004).

Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol73/iss1/10


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