| Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846 - 510 Seiten
...State Convention above alluded to was substantially this. The 20th section of the 9th article affirms " 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... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1888 - 666 Seiten
...he is paid the real and true value for it, unless he is willing to give it away or sell it for less. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation therefor. Id., art. 2,... | |
| 1852 - 680 Seiten
...and property of freemen, exists nowhere in a republic — not even in the largest majority. SEC. 3. 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... | |
| 1855 - 576 Seiten
...liberty, and property of freemen, exists nowhere in a republic — not even in the largest majority. \ 3. 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... | |
| 1856 - 654 Seiten
...This principle is clearly announced in the Lecompton Constitution. It is declared in that instrument that " 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 is as inviolable as the right... | |
| Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 Seiten
...liberty, and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, — not even in the largest majority. § 3. 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1858 - 774 Seiten
...subject to indictment, trial, and punishment according to law. ARTICLE VII. — Slavery. SECTION 1. 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... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 808 Seiten
...of such laws, to have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the owner or owners. SECTION 1. 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... | |
| United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 Seiten
...constitutions, has no legal effect whatever. The language of the first section of the seventh article is: " 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... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 808 Seiten
...subject to indictment, trial, and punishment according to law. ARTICLE VII. — Slavery. SBCTION 1. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to suck slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable as the right of... | |
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