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Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery  The
Unconstitutionality of Slavery (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1860). About
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statement: THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1845. Of all the State
constitutions existing at this time, 1845, (excepting that of
Florida, which I have not seen,) not one of them contains
provisions that are sufficient, (or that would be sufficient if
not restrained by the constitution of the United States,) to
authorize the slavery that exists in the States. The material
deficiency in all of them is, that they neither designate, nor
give the legislatures any authority to designate the persons,
who may be made slaves. Without such a provision, all their
other provisions in regard to slaves are nugat