PUBLISHED: March 17, 2017 at 3:19 pm | UPDATED: April 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm. SANTA ANA â A private detective who admitted he tried to set up a Costa Mesa councilman for a false DUI and tailed the cityâs former mayor using a tracking device was sentenced by an Orange County Superior Court judge Friday to one year in jail.
The personal liberty laws were a series of legislations that were implemented in the United States between the 1800s and the beginning of the civil war. These laws were a direct response to the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and of 1850.
In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the United States Supreme Court determined that 'personal liberty laws' were unconstitutional: They interfered with the Fugitive Slave Act. The Court held that while states were not compelled to enforce the 1793 federal law, they could not override it with other enactments. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. In 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act. It was favored strongly by, and signed by US President Millard Filmore a native of Buffalo.