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" We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. "
The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided ... - Page 617
by Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879
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The North American Review, Volume 165

North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...it was Intended tor the benefit of the negroes that the Supreme Court long doubted whether any act not directed by way of discrimination against the negroes as a class would ever be held to come within its purview.4 In time, however, its application was extended to discriminations...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 2

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 pages
...by the fifth section of the article Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary for its...
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A Hand-book of Politics for 1874: Being a Record of Important Political ...

Edward McPherson - United States - 1874 - 268 pages
...section of the article of amendment Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary for its...
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A Handbook of Politics for 1868 [to 1894]

Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...section of the article of amendment Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation, We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary for its...
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The Southern Law Review, Volume 1

Law - 1875 - 870 pages
...section of the article of amendment, Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. We doubt very much whether any action of a state not...come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency, that a strong case would be necessary for its...
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Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United ..., Volume 1

United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 796 pages
...them as a class, was the evil to be remedied by this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden. * * "We doubt very much whether any action of a state...held to come within the purview of this provision." 16 Wall., 81. Whether this suggestion of the court, that the recent amendments were intended for the...
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A Treatise on the American Law of Elections

George Washington McCrary - Election law - 1875 - 492 pages
...if not exclusively, for the protection of the rights of the freedmen, and doubt is expressed as to whether "any action of a State not directed by way of discrimination against the negroes on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision." It is also...
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American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 844 pages
...section of the article of amendment Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...against the negroes as a class, or on account of their nice, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. "It will be seen from the above...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United ..., Volume 1

United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...Congress to secure their rights and equality before the law. We doubt very much whether any action by a State, not directed by way of discrimination against...held to come within the purview of this provision." As no such contingency had arisen in this State, as is contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment, it...
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of ..., Volume 15; Volume 1875

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 800 pages
...fifth section of the snide ot amendment Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed by TIT of discrimination against the negroes as a class, oronaooount of their race, will over be held...
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