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To: rustbucket

No.. [chuckle] those State laws were specifically written to counteract Congress and Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, not the US Constitution per se.


358 posted on 12/15/2005 6:27:21 PM PST by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: mac_truck

I thought the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. And Lincoln said he would enforce it.

Am I getting the two slave acts confused? I know SCOTUS ruled before 1850 that some of the Northern state laws to circumvent the earlier act were indeed unconstitutional.


359 posted on 12/15/2005 7:33:04 PM PST by rustbucket
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