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By the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery Congress is empowered “to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”; and in pursuance thereof the Civil Rights Law was enacted.
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Sumner explains the constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Law as a response to the abolition of slavery.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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