"It might be privacy, it might be personal liberty, it might be the convenience of the traveling public.

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Some of the most open exercises of states' rights, of course, before the 1850s, were conducted by Northerners, like in the Hartford Convention of 1814, like in personal liberty laws that we'll come to a bit later.

州政府最早开始尝试行使权力,还是在十九世纪五十年代之前,由北方人主导的,就像1814年的哈特福德公约,就像我们马上要说到的个人自由法

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In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

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