The federal enclave of Oregon is admitted as a free State into the voluntary Union. This brings the balance, in the Senate, of free States and slave States to 18 free and 14 slave—excluding the federal enclave of Ohio. Article I, Section 16 its Constitution states: “In all criminal cases whatever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law, and the facts under the direction of the Court as to the law, and the right of new trial, as in civil cases.” Article I, Sections 31 and 35, prohibit the immigration of freedmen or their descendants.
Postscript: Sections 31 and 35 have since been replaced, but Section 16 remains the same.
[updated 3/20/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Magna Carta, Chapter 39
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unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
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Article IV, Section 3 [Clause 1]
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Article VI of Amendment
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War of Federal Aggression,” Cato Journal, 3 (Fall 1998): 250.
“Articles,” FIJActivist, Winter/Spring 1999, 33.
Oregon Constitution of 1859, Article I, Section 16
sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/Documents/transcribed-1857-oregon-constitution.pdf
Oregon Constitution of 1859, Article I, Section 31
sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/Documents/transcribed-1857-oregon-constitution.pdf
Oregon Constitution of 1859, Article I, Section 35
sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/Documents/transcribed-1857-oregon-constitution.pdf
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