| 1884 - 1434 pages
...due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." It is state action of a particular character that...the amendment. It has a deeper and broader scope. It nullities and makes void all state legislation, and state action of every kind, which impairs the privileges... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1885 - 336 pages
...notwithstanding the Fourteenth amendment, it remains there. It is state action of a particular kind that is prohibited. Individual invasion of individual...rights is not the subject-matter of the amendment. If the state has been guilty of no violation of its provisions, the amendment imposes no duty and confers... | |
| 1886 - 594 pages
...Rights Cases," 109 United States Reports, the Court said : " It is State action of a particular kind that is prohibited. Individual invasion of individual...rights is not the subject-matter of the Amendment." There is nothing, therefore, in this case, for an act of Congress to rest upon, under the XlVth Amendment,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1132 pages
...general scope and purposi of which were thus defined by Mr. Justi* Bradley in delivering judgment: "It is state action of a particular character that...rights is not the subject-matter of the Amendment." "It does not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of state... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1052 pages
...of state action. All this was held and ruled in the Civil Rights Caeet, 109 VS 3. As there stated " individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the amendment." Tbia Plate has enacted no law having any application to the près« ent case. It does not undertake... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - 1895 - 440 pages
...that might be made by private persons acting without authority from the State. § 762. In the opinion, Mr. Justice Bradley uses this language : — " It...that is prohibited. Individual invasion of individual lights is not the subject-matter of the amendment. It has a deeper and broader scope. It nullifies... | |
| Emlin McClain - 1900 - 1134 pages
...amusement. MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY, after quoting the first section of the fourteenth amendment, says : — " It is State action of a particular character that...subject-matter of the amendment. It has a deeper and broader sco|ie. It nullifies and makes void all State legislation, aud State action of every kind, which impairs... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1900 - 804 pages
...where the wrongful acts are committed." [109 US 17-18] In the same case Mr Justice Bradley said : " It is state action of a particular character that...rights is not the subject-matter of the Amendment." [109 US 11] In declaring the conspiracy provisions of the Civil Rights bill unconstitutional, Mr Justice... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1900 - 808 pages
...section of the fourteenth; but this had been already held to be merely a prohibition on the states. " Individual invasion of individual rights is not the...subject-matter of the amendment. It has a deeper and a broader scope. It nullifies and makes void all state legislation and state action of every kind-... | |
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