American Political History 1763 1876 I

Author : Alexander Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330148990
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book American Political History written by Alexander Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Political History: 1763-1876 It may be laid down as a fundamental proposition, that negro slavery in the Colonies never existed or was originally established by law, but that it rested wholly on custom. The dictum, so often quoted, that slavery, being a breach of natural right, can be valid only by positive law, is not true: it is rather true that slavery, where it existed, being the creature of custom, required positive law to abolish or control it. In Great Britain, in 1772, custom had made slavery so odious that the Sommersett case justly held that positive law was necessary for the establishment of slavery there in any form; but the exact contrary of this rule, of course, held good in commonwealths where custom made slavery not odious, but legal. In these cases the laws which were passed in regard to slavery were only declaratory of a custom already established, and cannot be said to have established slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.