Constitution of the United States · Atlas

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The Constitution of the United States4 mentions

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English) · The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (English)

A power of excusing either personal or real property from taxation, is so far from being found in the constitution of the United States, that it contains positive prohibitions against it, in the modes prescribed for taxing both.

ch. 9 ¶

United States Constitution3 mentions

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (English)

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.

ch. 4 ¶

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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

The federal constitutional text itself, whose preamble, structure, and amendments are closely parsed throughout the passage to determine whether it was made by a consolidated people or by the several states.

It next behooves us to consider whether the term “states” has changed its meaning, by being transplanted from its original nursery, into the constitution of the United States;

section 4.: the union. ¶

But the constitution itself furnishes the plainest correspondent evidence, in its origin, establishment and terms.

section 4.: the union. ¶

I cannot conceive that the constitution could have contained any thing more hostile to the doctrine “that the sovereignty or supremacy over the government of the union, rested in the people of the United States, not in their political, but natural capacity.

section 4.: the union. ¶

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery19th Century · English

The 1789 federal constitution whose text the wider work goes on to examine regarding slavery.

the second embracing the time from the Declaration of Independence to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1789;

ch. 2 ¶

Even if the constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional State institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

ch. 8 ¶

for if slavery had no constitutional existence, under the State constitutions, prior to the adoption of the constitution of the United States, then it is absolutely certain that the constitution of the United States did not recognize it as a constitutional institution;

ch. 8 ¶

An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

The founding legal document of the United States, cited for its jury and arms provisions.

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

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Take, for example, the Constitution of the United States.

ch. 14 ¶