A Treatise on the Rights and Privileges Guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesW.H. Anderson, 1901 - 562 pages |
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... individual , by his own mere act , without his government's consent , to expatriate himself . This doubt is made , because the act merely recites a principle ; but this doubt is surely un- tenable in the face of the plain recognition of ...
... individual , by his own mere act , without his government's consent , to expatriate himself . This doubt is made , because the act merely recites a principle ; but this doubt is surely un- tenable in the face of the plain recognition of ...
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... individual to individual . That it is a restraint upon state action is very obvious from its words , they being words of explicit prohibition . " No state shall " do the things prohibited . And Section 5 gives Congress power to enforce ...
... individual to individual . That it is a restraint upon state action is very obvious from its words , they being words of explicit prohibition . " No state shall " do the things prohibited . And Section 5 gives Congress power to enforce ...
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... individual and corporate wealth , growth of power under the late amend- ments , the allurements of modernism , many influences , have all been powerless to swerve that court from its orbit . If in any decision in times gone by it did ...
... individual and corporate wealth , growth of power under the late amend- ments , the allurements of modernism , many influences , have all been powerless to swerve that court from its orbit . If in any decision in times gone by it did ...
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... individuals , and thus as- sumed for the federal courts jurisdiction to punish acts cognizable in state courts committed by individuals , when the amendment only restrained state action , not at all mere individual action ; but the ...
... individuals , and thus as- sumed for the federal courts jurisdiction to punish acts cognizable in state courts committed by individuals , when the amendment only restrained state action , not at all mere individual action ; but the ...
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... individuals ; yet every right cre- ated by , arising under or dependent upon the Constitu- tion of the United States may be protected and enforced by Congress by such means and in such manner as Con- gress , in the exercise of the ...
... individuals ; yet every right cre- ated by , arising under or dependent upon the Constitu- tion of the United States may be protected and enforced by Congress by such means and in such manner as Con- gress , in the exercise of the ...
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Page 112 - The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands, and to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Page 422 - States, and the decision is against their validity, or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any state, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States...
Page 50 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 402 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 142 - State, exerted within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions...
Page 322 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited ; but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within the amendment.
Page 383 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme ; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, "anything in the Constitution or laws of any State, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 87 - The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.
Page 393 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 421 - By the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act of 1789, it is provided, "that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity...