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It provides for the creation of scores and hundreds of officers called “commissioners,” and upon these, it is said on high authority, to confer original and final jurisdiction on questions of human liberty.
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Mann discusses the problematic delegation of judicial authority to commissioners under the Fugitive Slave Act.
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