e of any law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such Service or Labor may be due
             In a positivist's view, and in Cover's view, the Clause says the slaves must be returned to the South immediately and no process was to take place in the North. This was fine until the North's political morality changed and their feelings towards slave-catchers from the South got deeper, which I will explain more later in the essay. The Fugitive Slave Act also was consistent with the Clause, Section Four of the Fugitive Slave Act reads:
             The judges of the Superior Courts of the Territories, severally and collectively, in term-time and vacation; shall grant certificates to such claimants, upon satisfactory proof being made, with authority to take and remove such fugitives from service or labor, under the restrictions herein contained, to the State or Territory from which such persons may have escaped or fled.
             Therefore, regardless of a judge's moral conscious, they must uphold the Southern states' rights to have their slaves returned to the rightful owners. Judge Shaw upholds this positi
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