Excerpt from The Constitutional Provision Respecting Fugitives From Service or Labor, and the Act of Congress The Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, relating to fugitives from service or labor, rests for its supposed author ity upon a single clause in the Constitution of the United States. Ini'the language of that clause, we, accordingly, have an absolute test for the validity of this Act. If it does not perform what the clause requires to be done; or if it does what that does not authorise, it is unconstitutional. Let us, therefore, compare the provision of the constitution and the provision of the Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.