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Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2

CHAPTER IV
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Those laws have no intrinsic right to be enforced beyond the limits of the State for which they were enacted.

The respect allowed them will depend altogether on their conformity to the policy of our institutions.

No State is bound to carry into effect enactments conceived in a spirit hostile to that which pervades her own laws....

It is a humiliating spectacle to see the courts of a State confiscating the property of her own citizens by the command of a foreign law....

Times now are not as they were when the former decisions on this subject were made.


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