 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1846 - 612 strani
...progress, and consummation, it cannot admit of serious question, that it is founded in a violation of some of the first principles, which ought to govern...Christian duty, the dictates of natural religion, \ La Jeune Eugenie. the obligations of good faith and morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice.... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 604 strani
...progress, and consummation, it cannot admit of serious question, that it is founded in a violation of some of the first principles which ought to govern...Christian duty, the dictates of natural religion, tho obligations of good faith and morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice. When any trade... | |
 | 1926 - 746 strani
...opinion in the case of 1 he United Slates v. The Schooner La Jeune Eugenie3 declares, "ft (slave traffic) is repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty, the dictates of natural religion, the obligation of good faith and morality, and the eternal maxim of social justice." However heinous and... | |
 | R. Kent Newmyer - 1985 - 516 strani
...graphic and passionate language. Such a trade, he concluded in a sweeping and much-quoted peroration, "is repugnant to the great principles of Christian...morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice." It was impossible that the slave trade with all its inhumanity "can be consistent with any system of... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 1998 - 360 strani
...civilization and the horrors of the middle passage. He concludes the trade is "founded in a violation of some of the first principles, which ought to govern...morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice." It is thus "sufficient to stamp any trade as interdicted by public law, when it can be justly affirmed,... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - 1998 - 278 strani
...the case; but, as if anticipating Lysander Spooner, he held that the international slave trade was "repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty,...morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice." In short, it violated basic principles of natural law. Consequently, he said, it also violated the... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - 1999 - 424 strani
...ordinary law in American courts. On the base of natural law foundations. Story held the slave trade "repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty,...morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice" and as inconsistent with "any system of law that purports to rest on the authority of reason or revelation.... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 522 strani
...ordinary law in American courts. On the hase of natural-law foundations, Story held the slave trade "repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty, the dictates of natural religion, the ohligations of good faith and morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice" and as inconsistent... | |
 | R. Kent Newmyer - 2001 - 552 strani
...La Jeune Eugenie (1822), Story contended that it was, arguing that the slave trade was outlawed by the great principles of "Christian duty, the dictates...morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice." He also addressed the positivist argument, contending that the positive laws against the slave trade... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - 2003 - 362 strani
...public international law.*"' Similarly, Marshall's colleague Joseph Story both denounced slavery as "repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty,...faith and morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice"87 and, nevertheless, in Prigg v. Pennsylvania,™ upheld the constitutionality of the tyrannical... | |
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It is repugnant to the great principles of Christian duty, the dictates of natural religion, the obligations of good faith and morality, and the eternal maxims of social justice. 
