“Now the Constitution doesn’t say how this right is to be enforced, but it says it shall be done. And from 1793 to 1850 it depended upon the states honoring the Act. Well, that was not working, and so this federal law was substituted which provided enforcement procedures under the auspices of the federal government.”
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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