| Michael Lee Lanning - 2004 - 344 pages
...powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation." At the end of the nineteenth century, Jim Crow laws in the South barred or restricted African Americans... | |
| Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 pages
...characterized by one scholar as one of the "dimmer lights" on the Court, wrote in the decision, "If one race is inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same level." Two years later, in Williams v. Mississippi, the Court once again approved white... | |
| Jamin B. Raskin - 2004 - 316 pages
...to eradicate racial instincts, or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation."55 Progressive attempts to integrate and create one society will just make matters worse... | |
| Jill Quadagno - 2006 - 288 pages
...powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based on physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the...... If one race be inferior to the other socially, then the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane.2 At the state level,... | |
| David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 pages
...political rights of both races be equal one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane."" Sixty-four years later, Professor Charles L. Black Jr. of the Yale Law School would say about this... | |
| Brian R. Farmer - 2005 - 476 pages
...reflected in the Majority Opinion of Justice Brown in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 when Brown stated that "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Role of the State The role of the State in conservative thought is for security and the protection... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 pages
...political rights of both races be equal one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane. . . . JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting. . . . The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this... | |
| Dwight N. Hopkins - 258 pages
...majority opinion of his colleagues in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson legal decision, which argued, "if one race be inferior to the other socially, the...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."6 Constitutional law drew from the objective science of racial anthropology. And both philosophy... | |
| Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat - 2006 - 321 pages
...had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"). 241. 163 US 537, 552 (1896) (holding that "[i]f one race be inferior to the other socially,...United States cannot put them upon the same plane"). 242. John C. Jeffries, Jr., Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography 451 (1994). 243. Foster v. State,... | |
| Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau, Celia Rousseau Anderson - 2006 - 306 pages
...respecting social advantages with which it is endowed" (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896). Further, Brown asserted, "If one race be inferior to the other, socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Therefore, the law cannot be responsible for changing racial attitudes; it can only be held responsible... | |
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