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 the case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the 1793 Fugitive Slave law is constitutional, while state personal liberty laws make unconstitutional demands on slave owners.nforcement of the Fugitive Slave law is declared the federal government's responsibility, not the states'. The Georgia legislature declares that it will never recognize free blacks as citizens. In reaction to the decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, and Ohio pass personal liberty laws.