| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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