 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...granted or secured by the Constitution of the United States." The other clause Is interpreted^ to mean simply " that no person or class of persons shall...classes in the same place and under like circumstances." The Court has been called upon to construe the Fourteenth Amendment in several cases in which questions... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 768 pages
...further said by the court, " that no person, or class of persons, should be denied the same protection which is enjoyed by other persons, or other classes,...in the same place, and under like circumstances." The same court, in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US (2 Otto), 542, 555, per WAITE, CJ, used the following... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 798 pages
...clause referred to. For, as before said, it has respect to persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied...classes in the same place and under like circumstances. " The Fourteenth Amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States the benefit... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 832 pages
...Fourteenth Amendment, which assures citizens of the equal protection of the laws, is that he shall not be denied the same protection of the laws, which is...classes, in the same place, and under like circumstances. See Missouri v. Lewis. 101 US 22. That was the language used by Mr. Justice Bradley in that case. The... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 708 pages
...clause referred to, for, as before said, it has respect to persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied...classes in the same place and under like circumstances." In City of Chicago v. Manhattan Cement Co. supra, on page 377, it was said : "Statutes similar to ours... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 716 pages
...meant by the guaranty of equal protection of laws. The guaranty of equal protection of the laws means that no person or class of persons shall be denied...other persons or other classes in the same place and in like circumstances. 4. SAME — province of legislature and of courts as to the police power. The... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 548 pages
...101 US 22, 31, the conrt say the amendment ' has respect to persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied...in the same place, and under like circumstances.' In Barbier \. Connolty, 113 US 81, 32, the conrt say that the fonrteenth amendment ' undonbtedly intended,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1242 pages
...convicted as he had been, would be subjected to the like punishment. The fourteenth amendment means "that no person or class of persons shall be denied...like circumstances." Missouri v. Lewis, 101 US 22. The general doctrine is that that amendment, In respect of the administration of criminal Justice,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1094 pages
...clause referred to, for, as before said, it has respect to persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied...classes in the same place and under like circumstances. The fourteenth amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States the benefit... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 988 pages
...upon this general question we have said that the guaranty of the equal protection of tíie laws moans iginal cost of construction, the probable earning...of the property under the particular rates prescri persona or other classes in the same place and under like circumstances." Missouri v. Lewis, 101 U.... | |
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It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in the same place and under like circumstances. 
