For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
—- unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph, 3, Clause 17
As part of the Compromise of 1850, Whig (nationalist) President Fillmore—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
- Removing fugitive slave cases from State judicial Courts to newly created federal administrative Courts—without Trial by Jury;
- Paying federal administrative law judges five Dollars if they decide FOR the accused fugitive (self-emancipated) slave, and ten Dollars if they decide AGAINST the accused;
- Forbidding accused self-emancipated slaves from testifying in their own behalf;
- Creating federal slave patrols with the authority to compel State sovereign Citizens into tracking down self-emancipated slaves—regardless of their personal convictions on the morality of slavery.
[restored 2/5/2022]
This indicates that the federal government had no interest in abridging slavery. —— JL
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Larry Gara, The Liberty Line, (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1963), 127.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 139.
Samuel J. May, Some Recollections of Our Anti-Slavery Conflict, (Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869; New York: Arno Press, 1968), 348-49
“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 18 September 2009, News:3.
Current U.s. National Debt:
