 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...Amendment" in Thorpe's Constitutional History of the United States, vol. 3. 29 19 Howard, 393, 404. race, and, •whether emancipated or not, yet remained...power and the Government might choose to grant them." As one of the results of the great civil war, "those who held the power and the Government chose to... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1140 pages
...and secures 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 by the dominant ze Sentell v. NO * R. Co., 166 US, 698, 705. 27 Reduction Co. v. Sanitary Reduction Works, 199 US,... | |
 | Shelby Moore Cullom - Illinois - 1911 - 530 pages
...inferior class who had been subjugated by the dominant whites, and had no rights or privileges except such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them. They had for more than a century been regarded as beings of an inferior grade — so far inferior that... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 434 pages
...and secures 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...power and the Government might choose to grant them." The Chief-Justice proceeded to affirm not only that no persons who had been or whose ancestors had... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1913 - 266 pages
...political complexions, Taney's doctrine concerning the negro was monstrous. To declare that negroes "had no rights or privileges but such as those who...power and the government might choose to grant them," was to negative all that the antislavery agitation had ever done. For the "assumption of authority"... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Historian - Concord (N.H.) - 1914 - 132 pages
...such was his opinion, for in speaking of certain laws made in view of such opinion, he said : 57 It is not the province of the court to decide upon the justice or injustice, policy or impolicy, of these laws. The decision of that question belongs to the political or law-making... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...and secures 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...Government might choose to grant them. . . . It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race,... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...for and secures to citizcnsof the United States. On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had...power and the government might choose to grant them. . . . In discussing this question, \ye must not confound the rights oL citizenship which a State may... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...and secures 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...authority, and had no rights or privileges but such 1 Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, Columbus, 1860, p. 251. as those who held the power... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1916 - 688 pages
...and secures 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...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... | |
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On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but... 
