"law" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some Northern states passed "personal liberty laws", mandating a jury trial before alleged fugitive slaves could be moved.
- Among the resolutions were a condemnation of Northern personal liberty laws and an assertion of the constitutionality of the fugitive slave law.
- He supported personal liberty laws.
- Several northern states passed new personal liberty laws in defiance of the South's efforts to have slaves captured and returned.
- In 1860 Washburn joined in public calls for the repeal of the state's personal liberty laws.
- The Court found that Pennsylvania's personal liberty law was unconstitutional because it conflicted with the Constitution's fugitive slave clause.
- The personal liberty laws were laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.
- It generated a wave of "personal liberty" laws to protect free blacks from slave catchers and to impede state officials from enforcing federal law.
- That all state laws which impeded the operation of fugitive slave laws, the so-called "Personal liberty laws," were unconstitutional and should be repealed.
- The trial dealt with the issue of Personal liberty laws in the North and the fugitive slave crisis.
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