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" They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them. "
Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment - Page 122
by John Mabry Mathews - 1909 - 126 pages
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 134

Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1370 pages
...Mississippi and Its statutes. They do not on their face discriminate betwreen the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil; only that evil was possible under them." In Pope v. Williams, supra, Mr. Justice Peckham, in delivering the opinion of the court, held that...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 170

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1898 - 766 pages
...Mississippi and its statutes. They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them. It follows, therefore, that the judgment must be Affirmed. VOL. CLXX — 15 Syllabus. GALVESTON, HARRISBURG...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 170

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1898 - 764 pages
...Mississippi and its statutes. They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them. It follows, therefore, that the judgment must be Affirmed. VOL. CLXX— 15 Syllabus. GALVESTON, HAKRISBURG...
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

John Martin Vincent - Conspiracy - 1909 - 670 pages
...understanding clause. In 1898 this constitution came before the Federal Supreme Court for adjudication.84 Williams, a negro, was indicted for murder in a lower...laid down by the court in Henderson vs. Mayor of New York 68 and in Yick Wo vs. Hopkins.8 8 In the latter case, however, it was shown to the satisfaction...
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Report of the ... Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, Volume 26

Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 344 pages
...Constitution of Mississippi, "they did not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil ; only that evil was possible under them." (Williams vs. Mississippi, 170 US cited above.) And here the careful reader of the decision of the...
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Race Distinctions in American Law

Gilbert Thomas Stephenson - African Americans - 1910 - 420 pages
...Supreme Court refused to interfere, saying that the laws did not, on their face, discriminate against the races, and that it " had not been shown that their...was evil, only that evil was possible under them." Several suits "5 have been brought, the purpose of which has been to test the constitutionality of...
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The Constitution of the United States: Its History Application and ..., Volume 2

David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1140 pages
...and statutes of Mississippi because they did not on their face discriminate between the races, and it had not been shown that their actual administration...was evil, only that evil was possible under them." Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers,...
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The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volume 1

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 728 pages
...Mississippi and its statutes. " They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration, was evil, only that evil was possible under them." In Giles v. Harris,3* decided in 1903, a colored citizen of Alabama brought an action in a federal...
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Principles of the Constitutional Law of the United States

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1912 - 678 pages
...Mississippi and its statutes. "They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them."18 Election of Senators The Constitution provides that Senators in the Federal 16 118 US 356;...
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Democracy and Race Friction: A Study in Social Ethics

John Moffatt Mecklin - African Americans - 1914 - 308 pages
...showed discrimination against the negro because of race. "It has not been shown," says Justice McKenna, "that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them." The inherent difficulty of the situation was stated by the court in an earlier decision. "It may be...
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