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their children not within the principle.

§ 226. Principle upon which children born in hostile occu

pation are excluded from citizenship.

227. Same-Person born within the seceded states. 228. Resume as to the qualifying words o fthe citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment.

229. Citizenship by naturalization.

230. Same Citizenship of married woman follows that of her husband. 231. "Collective naturalization" by the admission of new states into the union. 232. Same-Texas admitted into the union with her population as it stood.

233. "Collective naturalization" by treaty or statute.

234. Dual citienship.

235. The fourteenth amendment added nothing to the rights of citizenship.

236. Expatriatican - Right of declared by federal statute.

237. Same - Not

by mere intention.

accomplished declaration of

(d) THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE CITIZENS OF THE SEVERAL STATES.

238. Complex nature of those rights denominated "Privileges and immunities of citizens."

239. Privileges and immunities of citizens not defined in the constitution.

240. Privileges and immunities of citizens defined by judicial inclusion and exclusion only.

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306. Same-When statute allowing attorney's fee is penalty for failure to pay debt.

307. Same - State statute requiring railroad companies to fence track-Double damages for killing stock.

308. Same-Regulation of warehouses and elevators. 309. Same-Life and health insurance companies-State statute imposing damages and attorneys fees for failure to pay policy when due.

310. Same-Limiting hours of labor in mines.

311. Same--Illinois trust act. 312. Taxation and the equal protection of the laws.

313. Same-The unit rule

in

the taxation of interstate commerce lines.

315. Same Same Method of

assessment.

315. Same-Power of the state to fix the situs of the transitory property of railroads for purposes of taxation.

316. Same-Power of the state to tax railroad companies to pay salaries and expenses of railroad commission.

317. Same-Classification. 318. Power of the state to impose conditions of admission upon foreign corporations.

319. Civil rights-Exclusion of negroes from grand and petit juries.

320. The fourteenth amendment does not require state judicial procedure to be uniform.

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323. The design of the “equal protection" clause of the fourteenth amendment. 324. Conspiracy to deprive persons of the equal protection of the laws-Section 5519 U. S. Revised Statutes void.

(h) THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE NOT TO BE ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF RACE, COLOR, OR PREVIOUS CONDITION OF SERVITUDE. 325. The fifteenth amendment does not confer the right to vote.

326. The right to vote derived

from the state.

327. The fifteenth amendment a limitation upon the federal and state governments.

328. Same The only inhibited abridgement is one based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

(i) LAWS IMPAIRING THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS. 329. No state to pass law im

pairing obligation of contracts-Prohibition upon the states-Method of enforcement.

330. Same Same-Power of United States

circuit

courts to declare such statutes void.

331. The federal supreme court will determine for itself whether there is a contract and whether its obligation is impaired.

§ 332. Contract defined. 333. Same Charters of private corporations.

334. Same-Same-Rule for construing legislative grants. 334a. The prohibition protects all contracts, without regard to their nature or the character of the parties. 3346. Marriage not within the prohibition.

335. "Obligation of contract" defined.

336. Same-Axioms in American
jurisprudence.

337. Changing the remedy.
338. Same-Rule stated by Mr.
Justice Bradley.

339. Change in statute of limita-
tions.

340. Judgment for tort not a contract.

341. Withdrawing the power of taxation from municipal corporations impairs contract, when.

342. Increasing exemption from execution sale.

343. Laws altering terms of con

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§ 364. Tonnage defined.

(1) NO IMPOSTS OR DUTIES TO BE LAID BY THE STATES ON IMPORTS OR EXPORTS EXCEPT FOR EXECUTING INSPECTION LAWS. § 352. The state prohibited from taxing imports and exports-Exception.

353. Imports and exports defined.

354. Impost defined.

355. Inhibition does not apply to interstate shipments. 356. Right of the importer to sell in the original packages without taxation by the state.

357. Same-Brown v. Maryland. 358. Same-What is the "original package."

359. Tax on sales of imports made by auctioneer.

360. Effect of a sale of imported articles.

361. Duty on exports defined. 362. Cost of executing inspection laws-Exception to inhibi

tion.

(m) TONNAGE DUTIES.

363. The states prohibited from levying tonnage tax.

365. Tonnage tax defined.
366. The prohibition applies to
vessels engaged in local

commerce.

367. The prohibition does not extend to property tax on vessels.

368. Charges for the use of local aids to commerce-Wharfage.

369. Same-Same.

370. Same-Same-What is not wharfage.

371. Tonnage tax cannot be levied to defray cost of executing quarantine regulations.

372. Whether a charge is wharfage or a tonnage duty is a question of fact and law.

373. Whether wharfage is reasonable must be determined by the local law. 374. Purpose and design of the constitutional prohibition against state tonnage duties.

(a) THE EFFECT OF THE LATE AMENDMENTS UPON THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR RELATIONS TOWARD EACH OTHER, AND UPON THE RELATIONS OF EACH TOWARD THE PEOPLE.

§ 178. The purposes of this chapter. The purposes of this chapter are: (1) To state the general effect, as developed by the decisions of the supreme court, produced by the adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments upon the dual system of government in this country, as it had been theretofore established and settled, including the effect of those amendments upon the state and federal governments and their relations toward each other and the relations of each toward the people of the several states; (2) to develop some of the practical results reached, and rules of law established by the decisions of the supreme court construing those amendments,

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