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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 11 P15 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | MILESTONES IN THE LAW BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION 127 height. Indeed in Birney s Philanthropist 1836-37 we find various anti-slavery petitions and resolutions from the Cadiz and Mt. Pleasant societies. 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 These are couched in the very phraseology for which Bingham in 185666 manifested his decisive preference. Four of Bingham s speeches are of particular significance I. In his maiden speech in the House March 6 1856 attacking laws recently passed by the Kansas pro-slavery legislature which declared it a felony even to agitate against slavery Bingham argued These infamous statutes . contravene the Constitution of the United States. A ny territorial enactment which makes it a felony for a citizen of the United States within the territory of the United States to know to argue and to utter freely according to conscience is absolutely void. A felony to utter there in the hearing of a slave upon American soil beneath the American flag . the words of the Declaration All men are born free and equal and endowed by their Creator with the inalienable rights of life and liberty . A felony to utter . those other words. We the people of the United States in order to establish justice the attribute of God and to secure liberty the imperishable right of man do ordain this Constitution . It is too late to make it a felony to utter the self-evident truth that life and liberty belong of right to every man. This pretended legislation . violates the Constitution in this that it abridges the freedom of speech and of the press and deprives persons of liberty without due process of law or any process but that of brute force while the Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press and it expressly prescribes that no person shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law. II. On January 13 1857 Bingham spoke in support of Congress power over slavery in the territory and attacked President
