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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. "
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association - Page 192
by Alabama State Bar Association - 1903
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The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change

Leslie Friedman Goldstein - Law - 1988 - 660 pages
...opinion disposed of the equal protection clause argument with two sentences: 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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The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

William E. Nelson - Political Science - 2009 - 284 pages
...section applied only in cases of racial discrimination. Thus Miller expressed his "doubt . . . 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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Intelligence: Measurement, Theory, and Public Policy : Proceedings of a ...

Robert L. Linn - Psychology - 1989 - 246 pages
...holding that made segregation the law of the land for half a century. 15. "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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The Color-Blind Constitution

Andrew Kull - Law - 2009 - 322 pages
...prophecy about the future application of the equal protection clause — "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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The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality

Sandra L. Bem - Social Science - 1993 - 260 pages
...first case — which had nothing to do with women's rights — the Court "doubt[ed] 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 be held to come within the purview of this provision"...
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The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights: From Marshall to Rehnquist

Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - Education - 1995 - 512 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...
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The Age of Rights

Louis Henkin - Law - 1990 - 252 pages
...the Supreme Court and its "bad guess" about the equal protection clause: "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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The Warren Court: A Retrospective

the late Bernard Schwartz - Law - 1996 - 417 pages
...Miller, only applicable to racially discriminatory state action. The Court "[doubted] 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, w[ould] ever be held to come within the purview of...
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In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in ...

Charles J. McClain - History - 1994 - 400 pages
...Cases, the first cases to construe the Fourteenth Amendment, Justice Miller had said he doubted whether any action of a state not directed by way of discrimination against Negroes would ever be held to come within the purview of that amendment's equal protection clause....
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Women and the American Legal Order

Karen J. Maschke - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...emphasized that this was designed to prevent discrimination against negroes. "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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