 | 1867 - 826 pages
...that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the bw which operates upon one man shall operate equally...protection to the black man. Whatever means of redress is afibnle»! t« one shall be afforded to all. Whatever law allows the white man to testify in court... | |
 | 1869 - 832 pages
...th..î defect, and allows Congress to correct the i:;.just legislation of tho States, so far that the 1 which operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all. Whatever law punblus a white man for a crime shall punish the black man precisely in the same way and to the same... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect and allows Congress to correct the unj list, legislation of the States, so far that the law which operates upon one man s_h:ill operate equally upon all. Whatever law punishes a white man fur a crime shall punish the black... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 pages
...limitation on the states. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows congress to correct the unjust legislation of the states so far that the law which...operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all." In reply -to an objection that the first section of the amendment was in substance the civil-rights... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 1881 - 556 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which...operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all." Mr. Fink, a Democrat, followed Mr. Stevens, and made the point that the first section was, in substance,... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - 1903 - 1078 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which...operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all." Roscoe Conklin, of New York, and a leading member of the Reconstruction Committee, in 1882, in an argument... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1883 - 730 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States so far that the law which...operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all." In reply to an objection that the first section of the amendment was in substance the Civil Rights... | |
 | William Dameron Guthrie - 1898 - 304 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which...operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all." Roscoe Conkling was a leading member of the Reconstruction Committee which framed the amendment. On... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 790 pages
...limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which...the black man precisely in the same way and to the same de£- """WVhatever law protects the .s~ ^^ white man shall afford " equal " protection to the... | |
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... of these provisions is just. They are all asserted, in some form or other, in our DECLARATION or organic law. But the Constitution limits only the action of Congress, and is not a limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and... 
