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.
Reaction from Northern states was swift. In 1850, the same year as the compromise, Vermont was the first to pass a revised personal liberty law. Rhode Island and Connecticut followed suit in 1854. Three more states passed new personal liberty laws in 1855, and an additional two states joined them in 1858. With this clear pattern of cause-and-effect established throughout the first half of the 19th century between free and slave states, the stage was set for a monumental conflict.