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 | Law - 1884 - 1022 pages
...state that civil rights, surh as arc guaranteed by the constitution against state aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported...wrong, or a crime of that individual ; an invasion of therightsof the injured party, it is true, whether they affect hi? person, his property, or his reputation... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...state that civil rights, such, as are guaranteed by the constitution against state aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported...or judicial or executive proceedings. The wrongful thought that it was any invasion of their personal status as freeman because they were not admitted... | |
 | Economics - 1886 - 580 pages
...state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported...laws, customs, or judicial or executive proceedings." [109 US 17.] DISSENTING OPINION OF JUSTICE HARLAN. [In same cases] "This construction does not in any... | |
 | Theodore William Dwight - Personal property - 1894 - 940 pages
...it, and is directed to the correction of their operation and effect.2 The Amendment does not refer to the wrongful acts of individuals unsupported by State authority, in the shape of laws or executive or judicial proceedings. It was the denial of rights for which the States as such alone... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 744 pages
...people." " Civil rights such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals unsupported...laws, customs or judicial or executive proceedings." Thus, as it seems to me, we are instructed by the Supreme Court of the United StaU-s that the civil... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1900 - 804 pages
...guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment only against " state aggression," and that such rights " can not be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported...the rights of the injured party, it is true, whether it affects his person, his property or his reputation ; but if not sanctioned in some way by the state,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 904 pages
...guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, can not be impaired by the wrongful acts ot' individuals, unsupported by State authority in the...party, it is true, whether they affect his person, hie property, or his reputation ; but if not sanctioned in some way by the State, or not done under... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...Bradley : "Civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals unsupported by State authority." Two other important interpretations of the I4th Amendment are that "equal" does not necessarily mean... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1907 - 546 pages
...taking. . . Civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported...simply a private wrong, or a crime of that individual. . . If the principles of interpretation which we have laid down are correct, as we deem them to be... | |
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