 Louisiana, in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon all legislation of the states on the civil rights of their own citizens, with authority to nullify such as it did not approve as consistent with those rights as they existed...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Page 352by Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, James Buckley Black, Michael Crawford Kerr, Augustus Newton Martin, John Worth Kern, Francis Marion Dice, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1877 - 1208 pages
...commenced in any State court, for any cause whatsoever." In the language of Mr. Justice Miller, ''this would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...all legislation of the States on the civil rights of then- own citizens, with authority to nullify such as it did not approve as consistent with those rights.''... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 pages
...construction, followed by the reversal of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...rights as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. The argument, we admit, is not always the most conclusive which is drawn from the consequences... | |
 | Current events - 1873 - 434 pages
...by the reversal of tho judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would conrtitnte this Court a perpetual censor upon all legislation of the States on the civil rights of its own citizens, with authority to nullify such as it did not approve as consistent with thoee rights... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...construction followed by the reversal of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...rights, as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. The argument we admit is not always the most conclusive which is drawn from the consequences... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1874 - 268 pages
...construction followed by the reversal of the j udgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...rights, as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. The argument we admit is not always the most conclusive which is drawn from the consequences... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...maintain slaughter-houses, &c., and prohibited the right to all others, within a certain locality), " would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...rights, as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. " The argument, we admit, is not always the most conclusive which is drawn from the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 846 pages
...construction, followed by the reversal of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...nullify such as it did not approve as consistent with these right« as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. "Further on, in the same... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 844 pages
...construction followed by the reversal of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...legislation of the States, on the civil rights of their o«n citizens, with authority to nullify such us it did not approve as consistent with those rights,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...construction, followed by the reversal of the judgment of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in these cases, would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon...rights as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment. The argument, we admit, is not always the most conclusive which Is drawn from the consequences... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...and fundamental character." It would constitute the Supreme Court "a perpetual censor upon all the legislation of the States on the civil rights of their...rights, as they existed at the time of the adoption of this amendment." Such is the picture of the consequences of a theory which the court expressly rejected.... | |
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