 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 458 páginas
...incorporated in it which was put forth editorially in the ' Union.' What is it? " ' Article 7, section 1. The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of any property whatever.' " Then in the schedule is a provision that the constitution may be amended after 1864 by a two-thirds... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 596 páginas
...property in slaves now in this Territory shall be in no measure interfered with." It continued further: "The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of any property whatever." A limiting provision forbidding the altering of the constitution until after the year 1864, and then... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 404 páginas
...on the constitution a clause declaring, in the language of the statesmen of the cotton States, that "the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owners of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1903 - 332 páginas
...State of Kansas, and adopted by the pro-slavery party in 1857, the 7th article contains these words : " The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction [Locke's theory, it will be noted, as distinct from Hobbes's], and the right of the owner of a slave... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1904 - 478 páginas
...state constitution, and asserted that the right of an owner of slaves to them and their increase was as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. This declaration was the last of its kind ; never again was a pro-slavery clause to be incorporated... | |
 | Bar Association of Arkansas - 1920 - 666 páginas
...protection of property rights notwithstanding the Constitution prescribes (section 22, article 2), that "the right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction." The effect of the court 's construction on special legislation in this State, will not square, in its... | |
 | William Watts Folwell - 1924 - 528 páginas
...constitution there was submitted the question of retaining or rejecting the following provisions: (i) "The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of any property whatever"; (2) "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 páginas
...devoted entirely to slavery. Probably reflecting the influence of the Dred Scott decision, it proclaimed: "The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of any property whatever." Here, imbedded in a prospective state constitution was a proslavery version of the "higher law" doctrine.... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...work at Lecompton. The document that emerged was in most respects conventional. But it declared that "the right of property is before and higher than any...as the right of the owner of any property whatever. " No amendment to the constitution could be made for seven years, and even after that time "no alteration... | |
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The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. 
