In this connection it is proper to state that 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 in the shape of laws, customs, or Judicial... United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 281by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1892Full view - About this book
| Law - 1884 - 1022 pages
...and unconstitutional defence. In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, surh as arc guaranteed by the constitution against state aggression,...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
...reserved to the states respectively or to the people " In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such, as are guaranteed by the constitution...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
...[From various courts in Tennessee, Missouri, etc.] " In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution...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... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...setting up such an unjust and unconstitutional defence. /In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution...wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by State aiUhoritv in the shape of laws, customs, or judicial or executive proceedings. The wrongful act of... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 744 pages
...Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." " Civil rights such as are guaranteed by the Constitution...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 904 pages
...possible case, as well as to prescribe equal privileges in inns, public conveyances, and theatres ? ... ^ Civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, can not be impairca by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported oy State authority in the shape... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...inhibition upon the States alone, and not upon their citizens. In the words of Mr. Justice Bradley : "Civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution...acts of individuals unsupported by State authority." Two other important interpretations of the I4th Amendment are that "equal" does not necessarily mean... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 464 pages
...had been held constitutional by the Supreme court [in 1870, 100 US 339]. But "Civil Rights," he said, "such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against...State aggression cannot be impaired by the wrongful acta of individuals. ... It is clear that the law in question cannot be sustained by any grant of legislative... | |
| Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1907 - 546 pages
...may commit or take, and which, by the amendment, they are prohibited from committing or taking. . . Civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution...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... | |
| |