| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 386 pages
...sovereignty, that they could not have looked i "They were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...authority, and had no rights or privileges but such aa those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them." upon them as citizens.... | |
| William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...the South they were regularly regarded by the law and by private opinion as things, as chatties, with no rights or privileges but such as those who held...power and the government might choose to grant them, with all the consequences arising from the fact that they had not come to America voluntarily, as persons,... | |
| Alexander Johnston - United States - 1890 - 396 pages
...slaves were not regarded as persons by the founders of the government, but as chattels, as things, " who had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the the power and the government might choose to grant them" ; that Dred Scott, the plaintiff in error,... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...sovereignty, that they could not have looked i •• They were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the government might choose to grant them." upon them as citizens. And so it was inferred from the exclusive right of naturalization vested in... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1893 - 1154 pages
...south they were regularly regarded by the law and by private opinion as things, as chattels, with " no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power aud the government ïsSsaêiï t^l^.^^'«AL^Ä4&* Ч|*5А 4v58>-, oiVSpSSf /" А' ^Й^>А^%^ r-, L... | |
| Great Britain - Maritime law - 1895 - 232 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a [405] subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...or privileges but such as those who held the power anJd the government might choose to grant them. It is not the province of the Court to decide upon... | |
| Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...States; that, at the time of the adoption of the constitution, they were " considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the government might choose to grant them." 17 How. 393, 404. The recent amendments of the constitution, it was supposed, had eradicated these... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...to citizens of the United States. On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the Government might choose to grant them. . . . In discussing this question, we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a State may... | |
| William Livingstone - Michigan - 1900 - 596 pages
...>vho had been subjugated, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authoritv, and had no rights or privileges but such as those...power and the government might choose to grant them." He then went on to say, not only that no persons, who had been or whose ancestors had been slaves,... | |
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