 | William A. Barnett, Melvin Hinich, Norman Schofield - Business & Economics - 1993 - 540 pages
...be deprived of life, liberty and property, without due process of law. And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...United States, and who had committed no offence against 11 When the Supreme Court decided Dred Scott in 1857, Congress had already repealed the Missouri Compromise... | |
 | Joseph D. Grano - Law - 1996 - 352 pages
...unconstitutional because a law depriving a citizen of property (a slave) merely because he entered a certain state "could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law." Id at 450. Thus, the Taney opinion applied the due process clause to invalidate an act of Congress,... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1993 - 704 pages
...his . . . property, merely because he ... brought his property into a particular Territory . . . , could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law."); WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, MR. LINCOLN AND THE NEGROES 28-31, 61-62 (1963) (recounting, largely in Abraham... | |
 | David J. Bodenhamer, James W. Ely (Jr.) - Law - 1993 - 262 pages
...vexatious, case a truly revolutionary principle. "[A]n act of Congress," the Chief Justice wrote, "which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property in a particular Territory of the United States, and who has committed no offence against the laws,... | |
 | Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1994 - 472 pages
...Taney's opinion, it is referred to only once, and not in any developed way: An act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...territory of the United States and who had committed no offense against the law could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.9 Of course,... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...rights are protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment: "And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law."79 Hence the Missouri Compromise prohibition against the holding of property in slaves is unconstitutional... | |
 | The Editors of Rea - 1995 - 734 pages
...cotton. Questions 14 and 15 refer to the following passage. An Act of Congress which deprives a person of the United States of his liberty or property merely...Territory of the United States, and who had committed no offense against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.... 14. The... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - Business & Economics - 1995 - 490 pages
...Constitution. Taney held that Congress cannot prohibit slavery in federal territory: "an Act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...into a particular Territory of the United States, 12. Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, in Adrienne Koch and William Peden, eds.. The Life and... | |
 | Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1996 - 246 pages
...Even Taney's opinion refers to it only once and not in any developed way: An act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...territory of the United States and who had committed no offense against the law could hardly be dignified with the name due process of law.29 Of course, a... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...deprived Scott's master of his property rights under the Fifth Amendment. "An act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, without due process of law, merely because he ... brought his property into a particular territory... | |
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And an act of congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory of the United States, and who had committed no offense against the laws,... 
