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Citizenship and the early republic. Subjects, Persons, Rights. Subjects of the King The Rights of the Freeborn Englishman Natural Law Somerset’s Case “Comity” and the British Empire Natural Law versus Positive Law. Benjamin Franklin (1746). Benjamin Franklin (1766) .
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Subjects, Persons, Rights • Subjects of the King • The Rights of the Freeborn Englishman • Natural Law • Somerset’s Case • “Comity” and the British Empire • Natural Law versus Positive Law
Citizens of a New Republic • Republican citizenship • Status • Local membership • Husband-wife • Master-slave • Free blacks • Paupers • Rights and Citizenship • Sources
Pursuing Rights • “First Wave” Abolitionism • Gradualism • Lawyers and “Rights” • Commonwealth v. Aves • “Second Wave” Abolitionism • Immediatism • Constitutional “lawfare” • Women’s Rights • Public speech • Married Women’s Property Acts
Slavery, Race, and Citizenship • Freedom Suits • Straderv. Graham • The Northwest Ordinance • Jurisdiction and the limits of natural law • Frederick Douglass • Duties of Citizenship • Dred Scott • The end of freedom suits (in Missouri) • Federal Court: Diversity Jurisdiction • The plea in abatement