Ableman v. Booth
Ableman v. Booth is a legal case from 1859, the front of the Supreme Court of the United States was negotiated. The ruling confirmed the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the primacy of federal violence over state violence.
Sherman Booth was a slavery opponent and newspaper editor from Wisconsin who was sentenced to prison by a federal court for supporting an escaped slave - a clear violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, which obliged all Americans to cooperate in the pursuit of escaped slaves. Wisconsin, as well as several other northern states, responded to this federal law with a "Personal Freedom Act," which severely hampered federal agencies from enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law within their borders.
Booth was consequently in the course of a habeas corpus procedure by the judge of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin acquitted. US District Marshal but Ableman appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States against this decision Appeal which quashed this unanimously. According to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney , state courts should not interfere in federal matters. It banned states from releasing federal prisoners using the habeas corpus procedure and upheld the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.
literature
- Earl M. Maltz: Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2009, ISBN 9780700616664 , pp. 210-227 (= Chapter 18. Ableman v. Booth, Part 1: The Road to the Supreme Court ), pp. 278-288 (= Chapter 22. Ableman v. Booth, Part 2: The Court Decides ).
Web links
- Ableman v. Booth , Legal Information Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ableman v. Booth. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Udo Sautter : Lexicon of American History . Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39294-6 , pp. 11 .