If the trial of the issue, “fugitive slave or not,” be, “in the strictest sense,” “within the express delegation of judicial power given” by the constitution, then this ministerial commissioner cannot exercise it, and Congress cannot empower him to exercise it.
Mann argues that a ministerial commissioner cannot exercise judicial power over fugitive slaves as defined by the Constitution.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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