Footnotes 61-70: 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)

<fn61> [*264] "A Constitutional Argument," Emancipator, 4 Jan. 1838; James P. Miller, The Constitution & Slavery: A Lecture . . . in Which the Question "Does the Constitution Sanction Slavery?" Is Investigated (Albany: Graves & Herrick, 1844), 2-8; Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 36-37; Smith, Constitutional Argument , 9.

<fn62> [*265] Goodell, Views, 138.

<fn63> [*265] [Goodell], Address Read at the New-York State Liberty Convention, Held at Port Byron, 6; [Goodell], Constitutional Duty, 6.

<fn64> [*265] Tiffany, Treatise, 9-10, 29; Stewart, "Report of a Speech Delivered before a Joint Committee of the Vermont Legislature," and "Ad&ess to the Abolitionists of the State of New York," in Marsh, ed., Writings of Alvan Stewart, 177, 86-107 respectively.

<fn65> [*265] William Goodell, Our National Charters: For the Millions ... (New York: J. W. Alden, 1864).

<fn66> [*266] Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 4th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1873), §1789.

<fn67> [*266] Stewart, "A Constitutional Argument," 284-285; Stewart, "New Jersey Argument," 331, 345-346.

<fn68> [*266] 7 Pet. (32 U.S.) 243 (1833); reaffirmed in Permoli v. First Municipalily of New Orleans, 3 How. (44 U.S.) 589 (1845).

<fn69> [*267] Rhinehart v. Schuyler, 7 111. 473 (1846) at 522.

<fn70> [*267] Magill v. Brown, 16 Fed.  Cas. 408 (No. 8952) (C.CE.D.Pa. 1833) at 427.

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