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" Amendment] is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery, all the civil rights that the superior race enjoy. "
The Brief: A Quarterly Magazine of the Law - Page 28
1906
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 64

Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...impolicy or injustice of laws is not necessarily an objection to their constitutional validity (6). The amendment is one of a series of constitutional...implies legal inferiority, and lessens their security (7). But this does not demand a mixed jury; nor does it mean that a colored person may not be tried...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 3

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...in Strauder v. West Virginia, Id. 306, the court, alluding to the fourteenth amendment, said: "This is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose, namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 109

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1884 - 836 pages
...Slraudcr v. West Virginia, 100 US 306, the court, alluding to the Fourteenth Amendment, said : " This is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose, namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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The Supreme Court Reporter, Volumes 3-4

Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1434 pages
...in Strauder v. West Virginia, Id. 306, the court, alluding to the fourteenth amendment, said: "This is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose, namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 109

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...Slrauder v. West Virginia, 100 US 306, the court, alluding to the Fourteenth Amendment, said : " This is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose, namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ..., Volume 6

Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...amendment IMS the purpose of securing to the colored race the civil r กก//its of the white raw, TJiis is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States: Especially ...

John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett - Constitutional law - 1886 - 764 pages
...may lie cause the case to be removed into the Circuit Court of the United States ? " The fourteenth amendment " is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose ; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated ... all the rights that the superior race enjoy." Slaughter-House...
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Cases on Constitutional Law: With Notes, Volume 1

James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...any colored man sit upon the jury. . . . [Sect. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment is here recited.] This is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose ; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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Cases on American Constitutional Law

Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...color, so that by no possibility can any colored man sit upon the jury. . . . This [the Fourteenth Amendment] is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery,...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 38

University of the State of New York - Education - 1900 - 804 pages
...them as the Fifteenth." [16 Wall. 67-72] To the same effect Mr Justice Strong said: "The Fourteenth Amendment is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose. . The true spirit and meaning of the Amendments . . can not be understood without keeping in view the...
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