 | 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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...court, referring to the fourteenth amendment, said that •• if the States do not conform their laws to its requirements, then by the fifth section of...authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation." The purpose and effect of the two sections of the fourteenth amendment above quoted were clearly defined... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...court, referring to the fourteenth amendment, said that " if the States do not conform their laws toils requirements, then by the fifth section of the article...authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation." The purpose and effect of the two sections of the fourteenth amendment above quoted were clearly defined... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 pages
...the States did not conform their laws to its requirements, then by the fifth section of the article Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable...against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden. If, however, the States did not conform their laws to its requirements, then by the fifth section of...against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1874 - 268 pages
...this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden. If, however, the States did not conform their laws to its requirements, then by the fifth section of...against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 870 pages
...forbidden." f But, " if, however, the states did not conform their * 16 Wallace, 82. f 16 Wallace, 81. laws to its requirements, then, by the fifth section of...against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 800 pages
...the States did not conform their laws to its requirements, then by the fifth section of the snide ot amendment Congress was authorized to enforce it by...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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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. 
