 | Michael T. Martin, Marilyn Yaquinto - Social Science - 2007 - 732 pages
...Court as having an exclusively racial purpose. "We doubt very much," said the Court in 1872, "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... | |
 | Kevin Gutzman - History - 2007 - 258 pages
...former slave states against arbitrary action by state governments, adding, "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... | |
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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. 
