Constitutionality of a Federal Antilynching Law: Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session [on] H.R. 13U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - 62 páginas |
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A. J. VOLSTEAD abduct Act to codify action acts committed aforesaid arrest assemblage of three ATTORNEY August 9 bill bodily violence clerk commit or take competency of Congress Congress to enact constitutional CONSTITUTIONALITY county court in Ex crime of lynching criminal prosecution custody default of protection denial district court due process duly verified petition duty or power equal protection Ex Parte Virginia FEDERAL ANTILYNCHING LAW felony file forfeiture fourteenth amendment H. M. DAUGHERTY House of Representatives jeopardy judicial writ Judiciary legal or judicial liable to prosecution marshal Missouri mob or riotous municipal officer offense penalty person duly authorized person so charged person so duly person so put persons openly acting petitioner person power of Congress process of law prohibitions proposed legislation prosecution therefor punish the crime put to death riotous assemblage secure to persons SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS taken trial United Virginia 100 U. S. warrant or process writ or process
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Página 58 - have violated the prohibition of the amendment. In other words, it steps into the domain of local jurisprudence, and lays down rules for the conduct of individuals in society toward each other, and imposes sanctions for the enforcement of those rules, without referring in any manner to any supposed action of the State or its authorities.
Página 61 - An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March 4, 1909, is hereby amended
Página 61 - in serving or executing any such writ, rule, order, process, warrant, or other legal or judicial writ or process, shall be fined not more than $10,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years.
Página 58 - 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
Página 61 - ' An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary, '
Página 58 - United States v. Cruikshank (92 US, 542); Virginia v. Rives (100 US, 313); Ex Parte Virginia (100 US, 339); Civil Rights Cases (109 US, 3); United States v. Harris (106 US, 629); James v. Bowman (190 US, 127); Hodges
Página 57 - JOSEPH WALSH, Massachusetts. C. FRANK REAVIS, Nebraska. DAVID G. CLASSON, Wisconsin. WD BOIES, Iowa. CHAS. A. CHRISTOPHERSON, South Dakota. RICHARD YATES, Illinois. WELLS GOODYKOONTZ, West Virginia. IRA G. HERSEY, Maine. WALTER M. CHANDLER, New York. ISRAEL M. FOSTER, Ohio. EARL C. MICHENER, Michigan. ANDREW J. HICKEY, Indiana. ANDREW J. MONTAGUE, Virginia. JAMES W. WISE, Georgia. JOHN N. TILLMAN, Arkansas. FRED H. DOMINICK, South Carolina.
Página 58 - it does not make its operation to depend upon any such wrong committed. It applies equally to cases arising in States which have justest laws respecting the personal rights of citizens, and whose authorities
Página 58 - They have reference to actions of the political body denominated a State, by whatever instruments or in whatever modes that action may be taken. A State acts by its
Página 58 - nor deny to any person within ite jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' They have reference to actions of the political body denominated a State, by whatever instruments or in whatever modes that action may be taken. A State acts by its