...Stat. 25; Act of 1902, 32 Stat. 176; Act of 1904, 33 Stat. 428. majority balked at the idea that it was "the purpose of the 14th Amendment... to transfer the security and protection of all the civil rights we have mentioned, from the States to the Federal government[.p13 Justice Samuel...

...Legislatures of the States, which ratified them." It was not the purpose, he claimed, of the Fourteenth Amendment to transfer the security and protection...rights from the states to the federal government. The interpretation the butchers sought would transform the character of the United States government...

...the obvious history of the amendment, Miller argued that it was "not the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment ... to transfer the security and protection of ... civil rights . . . from the states Lo the federal government." Rather, the intent had been to place national rights under the protection...