Talk:Personal liberty laws/Archive 1

After 1850
The personal liberty laws came after the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, yet this article refers to prigg vs Pennsylvania which happened in 1842. Could someone please clarify the connection. Thankyou.


 * This is a little unclear to me too. It was also my understanding that most of these laws, as they are known today, came after the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. But there were indeed similar laws before Prigg, which were invalidated by the same.


 * This is not quite related, but I've found some potentially good sources for this article:     — Athelwulf [T]/[C] 22:58, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Personal liberty laws were passed in northern states starting in the 1820s-- the second Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (the first was in 1793) changed the nature of these laws and also intensified the battles surrounding their enforcement. A great source re: personal liberty laws is Thomas D. Morris's The Personal Liberty Laws of the North: 1780-1861.--Lsuhrstedt (talk) 00:42, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Question
How would the government react when the Personal Liberty Laws were ignored? Terrence.higgins (talk) 20:18, 25 May 2012 (UTC)terrence.higgins

If parts of the personal liberty laws were unconstitutional, how would the courts be able to enforce them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmilyDenison (talk • contribs) 15:43, 26 May 2012 (UTC)