Punishment for the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 1978, a Bill to Assure to Persons Within the Jurisdiction of Every State the Equal Protection of the Laws and to Punish the Crime of Lynching. February 20 and 21, 1934, Partes1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 276 páginas |
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... judge , juror , and executioner of his fellowman . Whenever , therefore , any State in our Union . fails to protect such basic and equal rights , the Federal Government , in obedience to the Constitution and our natural and inalienable ...
... judge , juror , and executioner of his fellowman . Whenever , therefore , any State in our Union . fails to protect such basic and equal rights , the Federal Government , in obedience to the Constitution and our natural and inalienable ...
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... judge and jailed for contempt . There is nothing in the bill about damages for persons who are manhandled by a mob ... judge urges them to it , for he is commonly a timorous professional job holder just as they are . When he is anything ...
... judge and jailed for contempt . There is nothing in the bill about damages for persons who are manhandled by a mob ... judge urges them to it , for he is commonly a timorous professional job holder just as they are . When he is anything ...
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... judge thus achieved might be done just as well , and no doubt much easier , by Federal judges . They , sit ordinarily in large cities , and have at their disposal grand and petit juries made up not of village loafers but of city men of ...
... judge thus achieved might be done just as well , and no doubt much easier , by Federal judges . They , sit ordinarily in large cities , and have at their disposal grand and petit juries made up not of village loafers but of city men of ...
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... Judge Cole . He was charged with discrim- ination in the drawing of jurors . The United States law provided that such discrimination was a crime , and that any officer who did so discriminate would be penalized . Habeas corpus was ...
... Judge Cole . He was charged with discrim- ination in the drawing of jurors . The United States law provided that such discrimination was a crime , and that any officer who did so discriminate would be penalized . Habeas corpus was ...
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... judges , as a rule , are not wholly influenced by questions of law and fact , but , like everybody else , by emotions . If the Su- preme Court wants to sustain the constitutionality of this law , it will do it . Imagine the attitude of ...
... judges , as a rule , are not wholly influenced by questions of law and fact , but , like everybody else , by emotions . If the Su- preme Court wants to sustain the constitutionality of this law , it will do it . Imagine the attitude of ...
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Página 262 - This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed by the Constitution. * * * The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their
Página 61 - making it a crime to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or the laws of the United States
Página 61 - of the Constitution of the United States, though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand so as practically to make unjust and illegal
Página 96 - the United States. Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal
Página 8 - who fails, neglects, or refuses to make all diligent efforts to perform such duties, shall be guilty of a felony, ■•and. on conviction, punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding 5 years, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Página 274 - that any officer or other person charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors who shall exclude or fail to summon any citizen for the cause aforesaid shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than $5,000.
Página 198 - jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Whoever, by virtue of public position under a State government, deprives another of property, life, or liberty without the due process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition.
Página 196 - Parte Virginia (100 US 339), at page 347: "A State acts by its legislative, its executive, or its judicial authorities. It can act in no other way. The constitutional provision, therefore, must mean that no agency of the State, or of the officers or agents by whom its powers are exerted, shall deny to any person within its
Página 257 - the United States. Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand so as to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Página 265 - adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another. It simply furnishes an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the States upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society." Mr. Justice Bradley, in First Woods Circuit Court Reports, page 315. in the