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passage and Fugitive
Years later, the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 led anti-slavery activists to quote the Resolutions to support their calls on Northern states to nullify what they considered unconstitutional enforcement of the law.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act.
The raids failed of their objective but strengthened Southern demands for passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which was a step on the way to the Civil War.
After passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which put even free blacks at risk of slavecatchers, Eston Hemings and his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin to be further north, although they were legally free people of color.
" Slavery was a contentious issue in the politics of the United States from the 1770s through the 1860s, becoming a topic of debate in the drafting of the Constitution ( with the slave trade protected for 20 years and slaves being counted toward Congressional apportionment ); a subject of Federal legislation, such as the ban on the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808 and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ; and a subject of landmark US Supreme Court cases, such as the Dred Scott decision of 1857.
The raids failed of their objective but strengthened Southern demands for passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.
Brown exhibited a moving panorama titled " Mirror of Slavery " in the northeastern United States until he was forced to move to England after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
After passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the US, he chose to stay in England until 1854.
The concessions included a constitutional amendment repealing any state law that interfered with enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, passage of amendments to the Fugitive Slave Act ensuring that any state that would not return a fugitive slave or obstructed a slave's return would compensate the owner of the slave, passage of a law requiring extradition of anyone indicted by a grand jury for enticing the escape of a slave, passage of an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing slavery in all current and future territories south of 36 degrees north latitude, passage of an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing all states the right of using the Mississippi River, and provide protection for southern states in the U. S. Senate from oppressive slavery legislation.
Threatened by slave catchers in Boston after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Crafts escaped to England, where they lived for nearly two decades and reared five children.
This abolitionist novel focused on the evils of slavery and was inspired by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act two years before, which punished those who aided runaway slaves.

passage and Slave
He lived to see the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament, the group saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
He helped found The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves.
After the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, Clarkson's efforts were directed toward ensuring enforcement of the act and furthering the campaign in the rest of Europe.
Douglas had actually stated the essence of the doctrine previous to the debate at Freeport, but its prominent public assertion at Freeport contributed ( along with other political disputes, such as over the Lecompton Constitution ) to antagonizing those in the Southern United States who were demanding ever-increasing protections for slavery, and who subsequently insisted on the repudiation of the Freeport Doctrine ( i. e. the passage of a congressional Slave Code for the territories ) in order to block Douglas ' presidential bid in 1860.
* An informal name for the anniversary ( 25 March ) of the passage of Slave Trade Act 1807 in the United Kingdom

passage and Law
From its inception in 1920 with the passage of Public Law 236, 66th Congress, the purpose of the vocational rehabilitation program has been to assist the States, by means of grants-in-aid, to return disabled men and women to productive, gainful employment.
* 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea (" Golden Law "), Brazil abolishes slavery.
John Law tried to get Paley to remove the passage, because it would prevent him becoming a bishop.
In 1904, the Kentucky state legislature's passage of the " Day Law " disrupted Berea's interracial education by prohibiting education of black and white students together.
* The passage of the Detergents Law ( 1975 ) and the Effluency Levies Act ( 1978 ) to encourage environmental protection.
A revision in the organization of French Overseas Territories began with the passage of the Basic Law ( Loi Cadre ) of July 23, 1956.
In 1956, the Society successfully lobbied for the passage of the Bard Law, which for the first time allowed cities to take aesthetics, history, and cultural associations into account for zoning laws.
* Transit passage, a concept in Law of the Sea
During the American occupation of the Philippines, the colonial government banned the song from being played with the passage of the Flag Law.
Foreign ships, both civilian and military are allowed the right of innocent passage through the territorial waters of a littoral state subject to conditions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The 1999 curriculum guideline issued by the Ministry of Education after the passage of the Law Regarding the National Flag and Anthem decrees that " on entrance and graduation ceremonies, schools must raise the flag of Japan and instruct students to sing the " Kimigayo " ( national anthem ), given the significance of the flag and the song.
Another major milestone in the development of the tourism industry in Japan was the 1907 passage of the Hotel Development Law, as a result of which the Railways Ministry began to construct publicly-owned hotels all throughout Japan.
From 1909 – 1916, he served as one of the Philippines ' two resident commissioners to the U. S. House of Representatives, lobbying for the passage of the Philippine Autonomy Act or Jones Law.
He headed the first Independent Mission to the U. S. Congress in 1919 and securing passage of the Tydings-McDuffie Independence Law in 1934.
Penn Law Review articles have captured seminal historical moments in the 19th and 20th century, such as the passage of the 19th Amendment, the lawlessness of the first and second World War, the rise of the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
Fear of a broader electorate, left-wing power and the growing social change engendered by the influx of Western popular culture together led to the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925, which forbade any change in the political structure or the abolition of private property.
Ibn ‘ Arabī saw this devastation with his own eyes and a passage of Rūh al-Quds tells us that when people made light of Allāh ’ s statutes He imposes the strictures of His Law upon them ( yūsuf 240 ).
Mark Blaug's classic 1960 essay The Myth of the Old Poor Law charged the commissioners of 1834 with largely using the Speenhamland system to vilify the old poor law and create will for the passage of a new one.
In 1980, nearly all nations removed their embassies from Jerusalem in response to the passage by the Knesset of the Jerusalem Law extending Israeli sovereignty over the entire city.
In response to the argument that Article 23 legislation is constitutionally required, opponents to the government bill point out that the Basic Law does not set up a specific time for passage of the legislation, and that the Basic Law also constitutionally requires that the HK government work toward a system of universal suffrage.
This passage must be read subject to the facts that: ( 1 ) there is no longer a duty to disclose a felony because misprision of felony was abolished by section 1 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967 ( 2 ) the defendant accused of blackmail no longer has to justify his demand, and the gravamen of the offence is no longer a demand without reasonable or probable cause, but is now instead the absence of a belief that there are reasonable grounds for making the demand and that and that use of the menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand.
However, it was not until 1986 that more comprehensive provisions, still in place today, were enacted with the passage of the " Georgia Print Law ".
Pressure from the conservative right, however, forced the passage of the Peace Preservation Law of 1925 along with other anti-radical legislation, only ten days before the passage of universal manhood suffrage.

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