Page images
PDF
EPUB

SECTION 3. No person shall be a Sen tor or Representative in Con gress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

SECTION 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SECTION 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

(The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 16th of June, 1866. On the 21st of July, 1868, Congress adopted and transmitted to the Department of State a concurrent resolution, declaring that "the legislatures of the States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana, being three-fourths and more of the several States of the Union, have ratified the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, duly proposed by two-thirds of each House of the thirty-ninth Congress: Therefore Resolved, That said fourteenth article is hereby declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States, and it shall be duly promulgated as such by the Secretary of State." The Secretary of State accordingly issued a proclamation, dated the 28th of July, 1868, declaring that the proposed fourteenth amendment had been ratified, in the manner hereafter mentioned, by the legislatures of thirty of the thirty-six States, viz: Connecticut, June 30, 1866; New Hampshire, July 7, 1866; Tennessee, July 19, 1866; New Jersey, September 11, 1866, (and the legislature of the same State passed a resolution in April, 1868, to withdraw its consent to it ;) Oregon, September 19, 1866; Vermont, November 9, 1866; Georgia rejected it November 13, 1866, and ratified it July 21, 1868; North Carolina rejected it December 4, 1866, and ratified it July 4, 1868; South Carolina rejected it December 20, 1866, and ratified it July 9, 1868; New York ratified it January 10, 1867; Ohio ratified it January 11, 1867, (and the legislature of the same State passed a resolution in January, 1868, to withdraw its consent to it;) Illinois ratified it January 15, 1867; West Virginia, January 16, 1867; Kansas, January 18, 1867; Maine, January 19, 1867; Nevada, January 22, 1867; Missouri, January 26, 1867; Indiana, January 29, 1867; Minnesota, February 1, 1867; Rhode Island, February 7, 1867; Wisconsin, February 13, 1867; Pennsylvania, February 13, 1867; Michigan, February 15, 1867; Massachusetts, March 20, 1867; Nebraska, June 15, 1867; Iowa, April 3, 1868; Arkansas, April 6, 1868; Florida, June 9, 1868; Louisiana, July 9, 1868; and Alabama, July 13, 1868.

Georgia again ratified the amendment February 2, 1870. Texas rejected it November 1, 1866, and ratified it February 18, 1870. Virginia rejected it January 19, 1867, and ratified October 8, 1869. The amendment was rejected by Kentucky January 10, 1867; by Delaware February 8, 1867; by Maryland March 23, 1867; and was not afterward ratified by either State.)

ARTICLE XV.

SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account or race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

(The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Fortieth Congress on the 27th of February, 1869, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated March 30, 1870, to have been ratified by the legislatures of twentynine of the thirty-seven States. The dates of these ratifications (arranged in the order of their reception at the Department of State) were: from North Carolina, March 5, 1869; West Virginia, March 3, 1869; Massachusetts, March 9-12, 1869; Wisconsin, March 9, 1869; Maine, March 12, 1869; Louisiana, March 5, 1869; Michigan, March 8, 1869; South Carolina, March 16, 1869; Pennsylvania, March 26, 1869; Arkansas, March 30, 1869; Connecticut, May 19, 1869; Florida, June 15, 1869; Illinois, March 5, 1869; Indiana, May 13-14, 1869; New York, March 17-April 14, 1869, (and the legislature of the same State passed a resolution January 5, 1870, to withdraw its consent to it;) New Hampshire, July 7, 1869; Nevada, March 1, 1869; Vermont, October 21, 1869; Virginia, October 8, 1869; Missouri, January 10, 1870; Mississippi, January 15-17, 1870; Ohio, January 27, 1870; Iowa, February 3, 1870; Kansas, January, 18-19, 1870; Minnesota, February 19, 1870; Rhode Island, January 18, 1870; Nebraska, February 17, 1870; Texas, February 18, 1870. The State of Georgia also ratified the amendment February 2, 1870.)

ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF CASES CITED IN BRIEFS, ARGUMENTS AND OPINIONS IN INSULAR CASES.

There were about three hundred cases cited in the briefs, arguments and opinions in the Insular Cases, (exclusive of those relating to the form of action, construction of the Customs Administrative Act as to procedure, and to the Jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts and the United States Court of Claims). An effort has been made to classify the cases cited on constitutional points under the following headings (for a consecutive list of these headings I-XXV, see Table of Contents of Insular Cases, pp. 462, 463, ante.)

The analysis is necessarily imperfect, many of the cases having been cited on so many points that it has been impossible to make a perfect classification.

I.

NATIONALITY AND SOVEREIGNITY OF THE UNITED States and SoverEIGN POWERS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

Ableman vs. Booth, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1858, 21 Howard, 506, TANEY, Ch. J. American Ins. Co. vs. Canter (Florida Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1828, 1 Peters, 511, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Amy Warwick, The, U. S. Dist. Ct. Mass. 1862; 2 Sprague, 123, 150, SPRAGUE, J.

Antelope, The, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1825, 10 Wheaton, 66, MARSHALL, Ch. J. Barron vs. Baltimore, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1833, 7 Peters, 243, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Briscoe vs. Bank, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1837, 11 Peters, 257, MCLEAN, J. Buckner vs. Finley, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1829, 2 Peters, 586, WASHINGTON, J. Chae Chan Ping vs. United States (Chinese Exclusion Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1889, 130 U. S. 581, FIELD, J.

Charkieh, The, High Court of Adm. 1873, L. R., 4 A & E. 59, and Corbett's Cas. Int. Law, p. 9, Sir ROBERT PHILLIMORE.

Chew Heong vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1884, 112 U. S. 536, HARLAN, J.

Chicago, etc., Ry. Co. vs. Tompkins, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1900, 176 U. S. 167, BREWER, J.

Chisholm vs. Georgia, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1793, 2 Dallas, 419, JAY, Ch. J., IREDELL, BLAIR, WILSON, CUSHING, JJ.

Cohens vs. Virginia, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1821, 6 Wheaton, 264, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Coleman vs. Tennessee, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1878, 97 U. S. 509, Field, J.

Cooper, In re, (Bering Sea Cases) U. S. Sup. Ct. 1891, 138 U. S. 404, and 1892, 143 U. S. 472, FULLER, Ch. J.

Crandall vs. Nevada, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1867, 6 Wallace, 35, Miller, J. Debs, In re, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1895, 158 U. S. 564, BREWER, J.

Dodge vs. Woolsey, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1855, 18 Howard, 331, Wayne, J. Dow v. Johnson, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1879, 100 U. S. 158, FIELD, J.

Ekiu, Nishimura, vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1891, 142 U. S. 651, GRAY, J.

Exchange, Schooner, vs. McFadden, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1812, 7 Cranch, 116, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Fong Yue Ting vs. United States (Chinese Exclusion Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1893, 149 U. S. 698, GRAY. J.

Georgia vs. Stanton, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1867, 6 Wallace, 50, NELSON, J. Gibbons vs. Ogden, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1824, 9 Wheaton, 1, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Gibbons vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1868, 8 Wallace, 269, MILLER, J.

Gilman vs. Philadelphia, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1865, 3 Wallace, 713, SWAYNE, J. Hamilton vs. Dillin, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1874, 21 Wall. 73, BRADLEY, J. Hepburn vs. Griswold, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1869, 8 Wallace, 603, CHASE, Ch. J. Jones vs. United States (Navassa Islands Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1890, 137 U. S. 202, GRAY, J.

Kennett vs. Chambers, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1852, 14 Howard, 38, TANEY, Ch. J. Kilbourn vs. Thompson, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1880, 103 U. S. 168, MILLER, J. Lane vs. Oregon, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1868, 7 Wallace, 71, CHASE, Ch. J. Legal Tender Cases, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1869, 8 Wallace, 603, CHASE, Ch. J.; 1870, 12 Wallace, 457, STRONG, J.; 1884, 110 U. S. 421, GRAY, J.

Livingstone vs. Moore, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1833, 7 Peters, 469, JOHNSON, J. Luther vs. Borden, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1849, 7 Howard, 1, TANEY, Ch. J. McCulloch vs. Maryland, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1819, 4 Wheaton, 316, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

McDaniel vs. McMeekin, Ct. of App. So. Car. 1834, 2 Hill S. C. Law, Part I, p. 1, O'NEALL, JOHNSON, HARPER, JJ.

McPherson vs. Blacker, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1892, 146 U. S. 1, FULLER, Ch. J. Marbury vs. Madison, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1803, 1 Cranch, 137, Marshall, Ch. J.

Martin vs. Waddell, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1842, 16 Peters, 367, TANEY, Ch. J. Miller vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1870, 11 Wallace, 268, STRONG, J. Mormon Church vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1890, 136 U. S. 1, BRADLEY, J.

Munn vs. Illinois, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1876, 94 U. S. 113, WAITE, Ch. J. Neagle, In re, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1890, 135 U. S. 1, MILLER, J.

New Orleans vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1836, 10 Peters, 662, MCLEAN, J.

Penhallow vs. Doane, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1795, 3 Dallas, 54, PATERSON, BLAIR, CUSHING, JJ.

Phillips vs. Payne, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1875, 92 U. S. 130, SWAYNE, J. Prigg vs. Pennsylvania (Fugitive Slave Law Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1842, 16 Peters, 539, STORY, J.

Quarles, In re, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1895, 158 U. S. 532, GRAY, J. Republic vs. Sweers, Sup. Ct. Penna. 1779, 1 Dallas, 45, MCKEAN, Ch. J.

Rhode Island vs. Massachusetts, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1838, 12 Peters, 657, BALDWIN, J.

Rose vs. Himeley, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1808, 4 Cranch, 241, MARSHALL, Ch. J. Ross, In re, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1891, 140 U. S. 453, FIELD, J.

Scott vs. Sandford (Dred Scott Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1857, 19 Howard, 393, TANEY, Ch. J.

Siebold, Ex parte, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1879, 100 U. S. 371, BRADLEY, J. Slaughterhouse Cases, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1872, 16 Wallace, 36, MILLER, J. Swan, The, U. S. Dist. Ct. Washington, 1892, 50 Fed. Rep. 108, HANFORD, J.

Tennessee vs. Davis, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1879, 100 U. S. 257, STRONG, J. Texas vs. White, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1868, 7 Wallace, 700, CHASE, Ch. J. United States vs. Holliday, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1865, 3 Wallace, 407, MILLER, J.

United States vs. Palmer, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1818, 3 Wheaton, 610, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

United States vs. Williams, U. S. Dist. Ct. Penna. 1852, Fed. Cas. 16,705, 4 Hall's Am. L. J. 486, KANE, J.

United States vs. Yorba, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1863, 1 Wallace, 412, FIELD, J. Ware vs. Hylton, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1796, 3 Dallas, 199, CHASE, WILSON, PATERSON, CUSHING, IREDELL, JJ.

Williams vs. Suffolk Ins. Co., U. S. Sup. Ct. 1839, 13 Peters, 415, McLEAN, J.

Wong Wing vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1896, 163 U. S. 228, SHIRAS, J.

II.

POWER OF UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE TERRITORY.

American Ins. Co. vs. Canter (Florida Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1828, 1 Peters, 511, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Boyd &c. vs. Nebraska, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1892, 143 U. S. 135, FULLER, Ch. J.

Clinton vs. Englebrecht, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1871, 13 Wallace, 434, CHASE, Ch. J.

Delassus vs. United States, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1835, 9 Peters, 117, MARSHALL, Ch. J.

Doe (Clark) vs. Braden, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1853, 16 Howard, 635, TANEY, Ch. J.

Endleman vs. United States, U. S. Cir. Ct. App. 9th Cir. 1898, 57 U.S. App. 1, MORROW, J.

Fleming vs. Page (Tampico Duty Case), U. S. Sup. Ct. 1850, 9 Howard, 603, TANEY, Ch. J.

Foster vs. Neilson, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1829, 2 Peters, 253, MARSHALL, Ch. J. Garcia vs. Lee, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1838, 12 Peters, 511, TANEY, Ch. J. Holden vs. Hardy, U. S. Sup. Ct. 1898, 169 U. S. 366, BROWN, J.

« PreviousContinue »