 | Free enterprise - 1997 - 446 pages
...Miller also interpreted the equal protection clause quite narrowly, noting, "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... | |
 | Law - 1997 - 496 pages
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 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...amendment, Congress was authorized to enforce it by suitable legislation. 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... | |
 | West Group - Law - 1998 - 588 pages
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 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1999 - 162 pages
...the Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 US (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), noted that any "action of a state not directly by way of discrimination against the [N]egro as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within [its] purview." Yet, time and practice have transformed... | |
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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. 
