 | Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...immunities of citizens of the United States, as distinguished from those of citizens of the states. The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce...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,... | |
 | Norman Fetter - Carriers - 1897 - 888 pages
...Sup. Ct. 348. affirming 60 Miss. lili2, 6 South. 203. 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 distinguished from political, equality, or... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1232 pages
...States, as ! distinguished from those of citizens of the : states. The object of the amendment was j 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,... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1900 - 804 pages
...[109 US 25] Commenting on this subject, the Court remarked: [163 US 544] "The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1134 pages
...its opinion by citing the decisions of the state courts upon the question under discussion, and 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 not have been intended to abolish distinctions... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1128 pages
...the decisions of the state courts upon the question nnder discussion, and said: "The object of i he amendment 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,... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 832 pages
...object of the amendment [referring to the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States] 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,... | |
 | 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 two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not be intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 804 pages
...accommodations to the different races, colored, Mongolian, or white.30 In Plessy v. Ferguson31 the court say : " The object of the Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce...the law ; and in the nature of things it could not Lave been intended to abolish distinction based on color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from... | |
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The object of the amendment 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 distinguished... 
