Footnotes 41-50: William Wiecek, "Chapter 11: Radical Constitutional Antislavery: The Imagined Past, the Remembered Future" in The Source of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, (Cornell University Press: 1977)
<fn41> [*259] Blackstone, Commentaries, I, *41. Among those citing this passage are: Tiffany, Treatise, 23; Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 16; William Goodell, "The American Jubilee," broadside prospectus [1854] in Birney Papers, Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan.
<fn42> [*259] Gerrit Smith, Substance Of the Speech Made by Gerrit Smith, in the Capitol of the State of New York . . . (Albany: Jacob T. Hazen, 1850), 4 (hereinafter cited: Smith, Constitutional Argument, which was its cover title); Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 6; [Spooner], "Legal Basis," 146; Goodell, Views, 151; Theodore Parker, A Sermon on the Dangers Which Threaten the Rights of Man in America . . . (1854: rpt. Boston: Old South Leaflets, n.d.); Weld, Power of Congress, 3.<fn43> [*260] Speech of Myron Holley, 28 Feb. 1839 at Penn Yan, N.Y., antislavery convention, reported in Friend of Man, 3 April 1839; [William Goodell], The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery: An Expose of the Position of the [American] Abolition Society (New York: American Abolition Society, 1856), 3; Birney, "Can Congress," 310; Samuel J. May, Speech . . . to the Convention of Citizens, of Onondaga County ... 1851 ... (Syracuse: Agan & Summers, 1851), 18.<fn44> [*260] Leonard Bacon, The Higher Law. A Sermon, Preached on Thanksgiving Day, November 27,1851 (New Haven: B. L. Hamien, 1851), 8.<fn45> [*260] Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 6, 137-146; Goodell, Views, 100.<fn46> [*260] Edward S. Corwin, 'The Basic Doctrine of American Constitutional Law," Mich. L. Rev., 12 (1914), 247-276; Ferenc M. Szasz, "AntebellumAppeals to the 'Higher Law', 1830-1860," Essex Institute Historical Collections, 110 (1974), 33-48.<fn47> [*260] For the text of this opinion, see Appendix 1; see also Justice William Patersoes Circuit Court opinion in Van Morne's Lessee v. Dorrance, 2 Dall.304 (C.C.D.Pa. 1795).<fn48> [*260] 6 Cranch (10 U.S.) 87 (1810) at 139.<fn49> [*261] 9 Cranch (I I U.S.) 43 (1815) and 2 Pet. (27 U.S.) 627 (1829), respectively. See also Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh, 8 Wheat. (21 U.S.) 543 (1823) at 572. <fn50> [*261] 4 Wheat. (17 U.S.) 518 (1819).