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In the context of slavery in the United States, the personal liberty laws were laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Different laws did this in different ways, including allowing jury trials for escaped slaves and forbidding state authorities from cooperating in their capture and return. States with personal liberty laws included Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Vermont.

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Personal liberty laws

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the personal liberty laws were laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Different laws did...

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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to disregard the Fugitive Slave Act. Some jurisdictions passed personal liberty laws, mandating a jury trial before alleged fugitive slaves could be...

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Fugitive slave laws in the United States

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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of enslaved people who escaped from one...

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Personal Liberty League

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The Personal Liberty League was a series of ad hoc political lobby groups formed throughout the United States (mainly at state and local levels) in the...

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Liberty

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defines it: 'A liberty for everyone to do what he likes, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.' Freedom is constrained by laws in both the...

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The Spirit of Law

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public revenues have with liberty Part III Book XIV: On the laws in their relation to the nature of the climate Book XV: How the laws of civil slavery relate...

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Civil liberties

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protections, irrespective of their background. The rights to life and personal liberty apply to persons of any nationality, while others, such as the freedom...

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1860 United States presidential election

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condemned in the Party's 1856 platform), the Fugitive Slave Act, personal liberty laws, or the Dred Scott decision. While the Seward forces were disappointed...

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Underground Railroad

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it difficult to prove free status. Some Northern states enacted personal liberty laws that made it illegal for public officials to capture or imprison...

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Statue of Liberty

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Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New...

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Fugitive slaves in the United States

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against abolitionist beliefs. Many free states eventually passed "personal liberty laws", which prevented the kidnapping of alleged runaway slaves; however...

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Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War

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1969), pp. 73–85, in JSTOR. Thomas D. Morris, Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780–1861 (1974). Clarence C. Goen, "Broken churches...

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Personal property

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Personal property is property that is movable. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In civil law systems...

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Crittenden Compromise

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that impeded the operation of fugitive slave laws, the so-called "Personal liberty laws", were unconstitutional and should be repealed. That the Fugitive...

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Personal rights

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defined as "rights (as of personal security, personal liberty, and private property) appertaining to the person". Among personal rights are associated rights...

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Origins of the American Civil War

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addressed only the slavery-related issues of fugitive slave laws, personal liberty laws, slavery in the territories and interference with slavery within...

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Fundamental rights in India

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law. This principle was first established in Magna Carta. Protection of life and personal liberty is also stated under the right to life and personal...

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Free Soil Party

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rise of anti-slavery sentiment, several Northern states passed personal liberty laws that forbid state authorities from cooperating in the capture and...

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Corwin Amendment

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amendment to protect slavery, enforce fugitive slave laws, and repeal state personal liberty laws. The proposed constitutional amendment declared: No amendment...

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Compromise of 1850

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dissatisfied by the lack of due process in these cases, had passed personal liberty laws that made it more difficult to return alleged fugitive slaves to...

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Liberty University

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Liberty University (LU), known simply as Liberty, is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern...

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

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lawfully enslaved) as well as runaway slaves. Those laws came to be known as personal liberty laws and required slave owners and fugitive hunters to produce...

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On Liberty

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can contest government infringements on their personal freedom of action. The ideas presented in On Liberty have remained the basis of much political thought...

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Liberty Mutual

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Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is an American diversified global insurer and the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the world. It ranks...

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