 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...confers, nor lawfully deny any right which it has reserved. . . . . . . [A]n 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. The powers... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire - Law - 2005 - 630 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." Thus the Court interpreted the Constitution's Due Process Clause not merely to give people a right... | |
 | Cass R. Sunstein - Law - 2005 - 316 pages
...right of ownership in a slave. In the key passage, the Court announced that an "act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property . . . could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law." This was the Court's first recognition... | |
 | Jack M. Balkin - Law - 2005 - 303 pages
...enactment that too greatly interfered with the substance of the right to life, liberty, or property "could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law" such that the requirement of due process itself entails substantive limitations on legislative power.... | |
 | David L. Lightner - Social Science - 2006 - 240 pages
...that a citizen could not be deprived of property without due process of law. "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," Taney declared. (The fallacy in Taney 's reasoning here is obvious. If Congress has outlawed slavery... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...taken for public use without just compensation. Taney declared, however, that "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." Nothing in the Constitution required treating human property as entitled to less protection than other... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 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...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. (450) These... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - Civil rights - 2006 - 2076 pages
...Compromise that excluded slavery from certain US territories. It held that "[a]n 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." Then, in... | |
 | Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter - Law - 2006 - 320 pages
...or property without due process of law, according to the Fifth Amendment. 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.129 The landmark... | |
 | Kermit Roosevelt - Political Science - 2006 - 284 pages
...entered a territory lost their property rights to their slaves. As he put it, "An act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty...property into a particular Territory of the United States . . . could hardly be dignif1ed with the name of due process of law."3 Markers of Illegitimacy What... | |
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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,... 
