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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,... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States - Page 448
by United States. Supreme Court - 1857
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The Tempting of America

Robert H. Bork - Political Science - 2009 - 452 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...be dignified with the name of due process of law." The first sentence quotes the guarantee of due process, which is simply a requirement that the substance...
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Reform and Regulation of Property Rights

Industrial laws and legislation - 1997 - 452 pages
...exercise them."1" Taney explained this "express" limitation as follows: And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...the United States, and who had committed no offence [sic] against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.1" On this point,...
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Focus on U.S. History: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...States, and not entitled as such to sue in its courts. . . . 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. . . . Upon...
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Property Rights in the Colonial Era and Early Republic

James W. Ely - Eminent domain - 1997 - 438 pages
...Amendment of the United States Constitution. His language is as follows: "An act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brouglu his property into a particular territory of the United States and who had committed no offense...
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

Akhil Reed Amar - Law - 1998 - 448 pages
...establishment clause. 86. Id, at 450 ("And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United 8tates of his liberty or property, merely because he came...property into a particular Territory of the United 8tates . . . could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law."l. 87. Campbell v. 8tate,...
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886 ...

William M. Wiecek - Law - 1998 - 296 pages
...Justice Taney's dictum in the Dred Scott Case (1857), where he averred that "an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property [Taney was referring to enslaved people who, in contemplation of law, were chattels] merely because...
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Storm Over the Constitution

Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. And 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 laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law." Bork then...
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America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in ...

Bobby M. Wilson - History - 2000 - 292 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...be dignified with the name of due process of law. . . . The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The...
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Great Cases in Constitutional Law

Robert P. George - History - 2000 - 222 pages
...at hand. A law that deprives someone of property because he has brought it into a particular place "could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law." This was an exceptionally important moment in American law. It was the birthplace of the idea of "substantive...
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...government; and the rights of private property have been guarded with equal care — 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 came himself or brought his property into a particular...
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