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Philosophy

 

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James W

 

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February 16, 2016

 

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Sim's lawyers, Samuel Sewall, Robert Rantoul and Richard Henry Dana argued both that the Act of 1850 was unconstitutional and that a judge in Massachusetts should not be the one who has total control over the life of Thomas Sims. In two separate trials, one before the United States Fugitive Slave Commissioner, Curtis, and the other before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Shaw, both rejected the arguments laid out for them and demanded Sims return to Georgia (107)...
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Similarly, other commissioners would use the arguments that Curtis used to aid them in making their decisions. When Rantoul, Sims lawyer, presented his case to Judge Shaw of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, his first argument was that the Act of 1850 supposed judicial power to an official who was not a judge which went against Article III which states that only a judge appointed properly under Article III of the constitution could hear a case involving the rendition of a fugitive slave...
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