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The Constitutional Power of Congress Over the Territories. An Argument Delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, December 18, 1856, in the
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ISBN13: 9781021927941
Publisher: Legare Street Pr
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A landmark legal treatise arguing against the infamous Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which upheld slavery and denied citizenship rights to African Americans in the territories of the United States. Curtis's eloquent and passionate defense of the unenumerated rights of all people against arbitrary state power remains relevant today.
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