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... A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Passengers - Page 636by Norman Fetter - 1897 - 1693 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1943 - 906 pages
...Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, supra, at pages 544, 545, and 551 are enlightening in this connection : Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation...in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally,... | |
| Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...those of citizens of the states. The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in...distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, asdistinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1232 pages
...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...in places where they are liable to be brought into contact, do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally,... | |
| University of the State of New York - Education - 1900 - 804 pages
...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 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 - 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 - 1128 pages
...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...permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places whore they arc liable to be brought into contact, do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either... | |
| 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... | |
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