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XX. - Lysander Spooner, Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States [1860]Edition used:Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860).
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XX.Whether, therefore, we have or have not political jurisdiction over the “territories,” so called, the whole question of slavery, so far as our government is concerned, must be settled by determining whether the constitution of the United States, “the supreme law of the land,” does or does not make a man a slave within the United States. If it does make him a slave anywhere within the United States, it makes him a slave everywhere within the United States—in old States and new States—and also in the territories, if our government has political jurisdiction over the territories. If, on the other hand, the constitution makes everybody free within the United States, it makes everybody free also in the territories, if our government has jurisdiction there. |
