Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service

Glossary

• advert turn attention to
• Debates in the Constitutional Convention James Madison’s chronicles of the Constitutional Convention’s deliberations
• disapprobation disapproval
• inalienability the state of being incapable of being taken away
• inviolability the state of being secure from violation
• Mr. Madison James Madison (1751–1836), fourth U.S. president
• non-importation, non-consumption and non-exportation agreement refusal by the colonists to import or consume goods from abroad and to export goods to Britain and its colonies; essentially a trade boycott
• polity a politically organized unit; a nation
• recaption seizure; recovery; usually used to refer to retaking property from another who holds it illegally