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...Consent. White slavery, says Author Terrot, was no problem in Britain before the 19th century. The French started the trouble. In 1804 the Code Napoléon, a writ that ran through Western Europe, raised the age of consent to 21, and any man who had sexual relations with a minor could be brought to trial (penalty: two years' imprisonment). Suddenly the Continental whoremongers found it convenient to get their fresh recruits from foreign fields, notably England, where, as Author Terrot puts it, "any child of twelve was legally competent to consent to her own seduction." (Exception...
...drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg also stepped lightly out of the target area. "We cannot share [Dibelius'] interpretation," they advised member pastors. "The obedience required of us by Holy Writ in respect to governmental authority applies also to the governments presently existing today...
Hartnett said people at the State House told him that the ballots could not be opened without a court order. DeGuglielmo said earlier that the Commission need not follow his specific suggestions, but unless it took some constructive measures to investigate the allegations, he might seek an immediate writ of mandamus against the Commission. He added he would not wait until Monday, when the City Council has its regular meeting...
...these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from which Negroes have not been excluded), threatened to grant Goldsby's plea for a writ of habeas corpus if the state failed to comply. Plainly implied is a warning with impact beyond Mississippi's borders: Negroes cannot lawfully be convicted of crime in counties that bar Negroes from jury service...
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