Saturday, June 29, 2024

Free Inhabitants: Paupers, Vagabonds... are NOT Free Inhabitants? Wow!

 

Articles of Confederation, art. 4

1 Mar. 1781

Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state, to any other state, of which the Owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmlorfmWBM&t=632s

The cop in this video refers to "Free Inhabitors" or possibly "Free inhabitants" - no one had HEARD of this term before so I searched it!!

 https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_2_1s5.html

So people do try to claim they are a "free inhabitant" to not follow enforcement orders 

 Under the AoC, what it actually means is that any free citizen can move between other states and must be treated equally by the other states.

 The Articles of Confederation was written when slavery was widespread. The term basically meant 'non slave.'

 Indeed this 1822 law journal discusses the Pauper, Vagabond vs Free citizen in the context of a slave

 So it's in a dissent argument - that "citizen" is CONFERRED by the regulations of the municipality.

 Following WW2 a lot of soldiers coming back didn't have places so "tent cities" sprung up. Many jurisdictions combated this by requiring you have to fixed house on land if you were sleeping there.

 

 

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