The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
- The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The "Unconstitutionality of Slavery" was a pamphlet by American abolitionist Lysander Spooner advocating the view that the U.S. Constitution prohibited slavery. This view was advocated in contrast to that of William Lloyd Garrison who advocated opposing the constitution on the grounds that it supported slavery. In the pamphlet, Spooner shows that none of the state governments of the slave states specifically authorized slavery, that the U.S. Constitution contains several clauses that are contradictory with slavery, that slavery was a violation of natural law, and that the "intentions" of the Constitutional Convention have no legal bearing on the document they created.
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