 | Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...citizens of the United States, as distinguished from those of citizens of the states. The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute...distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, asdistinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1900 - 804 pages
...rights of the Constitution. [109 US 25] Commenting on this subject, the Court remarked: [163 US 544] "The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly...law, but in the nature of things it could not have intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1416 pages
...states. *The object of the amendment was un-[544 doubt edly to enforce the absolute equality of thetwo races before the law, but in the nature of things...intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforcesocial, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms... | |
 | Henry Brannon - Constitutional amendments - 1901 - 582 pages
...or immunity under the Fourteenth Amendment.65 The opinion of Justice Brown says : "The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law; and in the, nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinction based on color,... | |
 | Henry Brannon - Constitutional amendments - 1901 - 596 pages
...the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law; and in the. nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinction based on color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1134 pages
...said: "The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two ruces before the law, but. in the nature of things, it could...distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distlngul.shcd from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 636 pages
...segregation of the negro, the Supreme Court of the United States said: "The object of the amendment (i4th) was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of...the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not be intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, James Christopher Cahill, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 714 pages
...law. It is said in Smith v. Bates Machine Co., 79 1ll. App. 519-526: "Appellee may have a remedy at law, but in the nature of things it could not have been as full, adequate and complete as in a court of equity. The jurisdiction in equity attaches unless... | |
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A]mendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguish distinguished from... 
