 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a state, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...pleadings, the court must be understood as speaking m this opinion of that class only. That is, of those persons who are the descendants of Africans who... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1860 - 830 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a state, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...persons who are the descendants of Africans who were ii ported into this country, and sold as slaves. The situation of this population was altogether unlike... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...the court must be understood as speaking, in this opinioe, of that class only ; that is, of those persons who are the descendants of Africans who were... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...on the pleadings, the court must be understood as Bpeaking, in this opinion, of that class only ; that is, of those persons who are the descendants of... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the CoDstitution ' of the United States. And this being the only matter...imported into this country and sold as slaves. ****** The words " people of the United States" and " citizens" are synonymous tertns, and mean the same thing.... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...in this opinion, of that class only ; that is, of (388) those persons who are the descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Conflict of laws - 1862 - 888 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution of the United States.1 And this being the only matter in dispute on the pleadings, the court must be understood as... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - New York (State) - 1873 - 518 pages
...emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a state in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution of the United States." (19 How. R, 403.) The Chief Justice then proceeds to show, by various modes of reasoning, that free... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2096 pages
...the latter case Air. Justice Strong said: "A corporation itself can be a citizen of no state In the Q 2 H̑ ": ș S 1 b iݳ q @ Aq 5 @ iW RKb -q2 8W J [E A suit may be brought in the federal courts by or against a corporation, but in such a case it is regarded... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution...were imported into this country and sold as slaves. "We proceed to examine the case as presented by the pleadings. " The words ' people of the United States'... | |
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The only matter in issue before the court, therefore, is, whether the descendants of such slaves, when they shall be emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word... 
