Constitution of the United States

1. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 13 authority 13 citations · 35 passages

   section 3.: sovereignty. 3 passages anchored here · section 4.: the union. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 7 · section 6.: property. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 10 4 passages anchored here · ch. 11 10 passages anchored here · ch. 14 4 passages anchored here · ch. 15 4 passages anchored here

   and 1 more chapter

   ch. 16 3 passages anchored here

   The federal constitution is named and its content described directly as authoritative textual evidence throughout the author's argument against governmental sovereignty.

   The federal constitution established three conventional powers over the federal government, lodging one in the majority of the people of each state;

2. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lysander Spooner 3 authority 3 citations · 12 passages

   ch. 4 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 · ch. 8 · ch. 14 8 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named as source of the constitutional presumption of liberty and reassertion of natural-rights principle.

   As the presumption must—under the United States constitution—and indeed under the state constitutions also—be always in favor of liberty, it would probably now be impossible for a slaveholder to prove, in one case in an hundred, that his slave was descended, (through the maternal line, according to the slave code,) from any one who was originally a slave within the description given by the statutes.

3. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   section ii.↩ · ch. 14

   Explicit citation of named constitutional clauses to support the argument.

   This right of resistance is recognized by the constitution of the United States, as a strictly legal and constitutional right.

4. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 36

   The Constitution is explicitly named and relied upon as continuing legal authority obstructing socialistic legislation in America.

   Some articles in the Constitution of the United States, inspired by the sentiment of the Declaration of Independence, have supported individual freedom;

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