Slavery
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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The institution of chattel slavery, whose legal and constitutional status is the work's central subject.
The fact, that slavery was tolerated in the colonies, is no evidence of its legality;
And if so, there was no constitutional slavery in the colonies up to the time of the revolution.
It would spare no vestige of that system of human slavery, which now claims to exist by authority of law.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The institution of personal slavery, repeatedly invoked as an analogy and test case in Taylor's arguments about the freedom of labour, capital, and intelligence.
Are slaves free, because their labour is made more productive, (if such be the fact,) by the intelligence of their masters?
although it is notorious that mechanicks, white or black, freemen or slaves, earn much higher daily wages than agricultural labourers can gain;
And it would be an evident contradiction in economists to assert, that cultivation by personal slavery is unthrifty, but that the subjection of capital to legislative dislocation, will make it more productive.
Institutes of Roman Law
The legal institution treating persons as property, discussed in tension with natural law.
Roman slavery cannot be judged solely either by the dismal picture Edition:
But the Jus Gentium (the law of the civilized world) admits the institution of Slavery.
Another institution, slavery, placed one subject over another in the position of despotic sovereign.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The institution of slavery in the United States, used as a comparative example of how circumstance shapes opinion.
in the South, on the other hand, the maintenance of slavery developed into a fixed policy, and before the War of Secession the “peculiar institution” had become the foundation-stone of the social system.
Orations
The central abstract concept contrasted with freedom: legal, social, and psychological bondage, examined through myth, law, and dialogue.
What again?
"What then?
" "What then?
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The institution of personal and predial slavery in the Roman world, discussed regarding its mitigation.
I do not question the received opinion that Christianity greatly mitigated and did much to abolish personal and predial slavery in the West, but the Continental lawyers of whom I spoke considerably antedate its influence, and take far too little account of the prodigious effects subsequently produced by the practical equality of all men within the pale of the Catholic priesthood.
The Rights of War and Peace
The institution justified by Grotius through an analogy to the sale of labor and rights of conquest.
If he justifies slavery, it is not without ingenuity;
Letters to Lucilius
Legal and moral condition of being owned by another; reframed by Seneca as a matter of the spirit
" No more than all freemen.
No slavery is more shameful than the voluntary.
"Nothing is more degrading than this, nothing more disgraceful.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
The institution of bondage arising from voluntary surrender of independence, structured strictly by caste, with rules on masters' rights, offenses against slaves, and manumission.
his former master shall get him.
For he was created by the Self-existent One for servitude itself.
For by the slavery of a Brāhmaṇa, the king's majesty is diminished.
Nāradasmṛti
The institution of bondage, with rules distinguishing hereditary and conditional slavery and its termination.
slavery is not intended for them.
he is never released from slavery.
A debtor is released from slavery by paying the debt with interest.
Law in a Free State
The historical institution and industrial system of holding persons as property, presented as an earlier stage in the evolutionary sequence of labour systems.
Slavery is still a natural and beneficent industrial system among some peoples;
In the days of slavery it would have been quite as accurate to say that the natural relation between master and workman was one of coercion.
Memorabilia
Condition of being mastered by forces that prevent the best and enforce the worst.
The worst possible, of course.
Slavery to the worst masters, I think.
You feel sure then that the incontinent are bond slaves?