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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The thirteen British North American colonies whose charters and law are examined for any legal sanction of slavery.
Those charters were the fundamental constitutions of the colonies, with some immaterial exceptions, up to the time of the revolution;
These principles were incorporated into all the charters, granted to the colonies, (if all those charters were like those I have examined, and I have examined nearly all of them.
No one of all these charters that I have examined—and I have examined nearly all of them—contained the least intimation that slavery had, or could have any legal existence under them.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
American colony noted as having been divided, like Virginia, in disregard of its original charter.
Carolina and other colonies were in like manner divided.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A U.S. state whose statutory juror qualifications or selection method are surveyed as part of the author's state-by-state argument that American juries are generally illegal.
How jurors are appointed, and what are their qualifications, in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, and California, I know not.