Somerset’s Case in the United States

Somerset’s Case 98 Eng. Rep. 499 (K.B., 1772)

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 465 SOMERSET’S CASE 98 Eng. Rep. 499 (K.B., 1772) The case of Somerset v. Stewart, decided by King’s Bench (the highest common law court in England) in 1772, profoundly affected the constitutional status of slavery in England and in the United States after independence (because the precedent had become
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