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Ableman v. Booth
(1859), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld both the constitutionality
of the Fugitive Slave Act and the supremacy of
the federal government over state governments.
Sherman Booth was an Abolitionist
newspaper editor in Wisconsin who had been sentenced to jail by a federal court
for assisting a runaway slave--a clear violation of the 1850 Fugitive
Slave Act, which required all Americans to cooperate in the capture and
return of escaped slaves. Wisconsin (as well as several other Northern states),
however, had responded to the federal act by passing a "personal liberty
law," severely impeding enforcement by federal authorities of the Fugitive
Slave Act within its borders.
As a consequence, Booth was released on
a writ of habeas corpus, issued by a judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. U.S.
District Marshal Ableman, however, obtained a writ of error from the U.S.
Supreme Court in order to have the state court's action reviewed. The Supreme
Court rendered a unanimous opinion reversing the Wisconsin court. Chief Justice Roger
B. Taney's opinion denied the right of state courts to interfere in
federal cases, prohibited states from releasing federal prisoners through writs
of habeas corpus, and upheld the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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