St. George Tucker Quote

Quote from St. George Tucker,

"Let no Negroe or mulattoe be cabable of taking, holding, or exercising any public office, freehold, franchise or privilege. ... Nor of keeping, or bearing arms, unless authorized to do by some act of the general assembly, whose duration shall be limited to three years."

By:	St. George Tucker (more quotes by St. George Tucker or books by/about St. George Tucker)
	(1752-1827) born in Bermuda, American lawyer, professor of law, judge
Source:	in Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1803, p. 144), quoted in Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984), p. 100
Categories:	Arms, Racism, Slavery
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