CITIZENSHIP AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Subjects, Persons, Rights Subjects of the King The Rights of the

Freeborn Englishman

Natural Law Somerset’s Case

“Comity” and the British Empire

Natural Law versus Positive Law

Benjamin Franklin (1746)

Benjamin Franklin (1766)

Benjamin Franklin (1778)

Citizenship and Race

Citizens of a New Republic Republican

citizenship Status

Local membership Husband-wife Master-slave Free blacks Paupers

Rights and Citizenship Sources

Pursuing Rights “First Wave”

Abolitionism Gradualism Lawyers and “Rights” Commonwealth v. Aves

“Second Wave” Abolitionism Immediatism Constitutional “lawfare”

Women’s Rights Public speech Married Women’s

Property Acts

Slavery, Race, and Citizenship

Freedom Suits Strader v. Graham

The Northwest Ordinance Jurisdiction and the limits

of natural law Frederick Douglass

Duties of Citizenship Dred Scott

The end of freedom suits (in Missouri)

Federal Court: Diversity Jurisdiction

The plea in abatement